Lisa Diane Wedgeworth
Mixed Media Abstract Paintings
Meditation #4 (Blue, Yellow, and White), 2015 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 36" x 48"
Meditation #5 (Pink, Teal Orange), 2015 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 36" x 48"
Meditation #6 (ROYGBIV), 2015 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 36" x 48"
Meditation #7 (Multi-Hued), 2015 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 36" x 48"
Meditation #8 (Green, Yellow, Blue and Brown), 2015 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 36" x 48"
Meditation #9 (Magenta, Orange, Teal, Yellow, Navy), 2015| Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 36" x 48"
Meditation #10 (Go For It), 2015 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 36" x 48"
Meditation #11 (Tell Me), 2015 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 36" x 48"
These abstract works are made as a mediative practice aligned with the surrealist automatism ideal of making work that allows the unconscious mind to take over while suppressing the conscious mind. The outcome is not my concern, or rather not in the forefront of my mind, as I am more interested in being a vessel through which an organic mingling of materials is manifested through a spiritual experience.
Hair Text Paintings
Hair Text No. 1 (she touched), 2014 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 48" x 60"
Hair Text No. 2 (erotic exotic), 2015 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 48" x 60"
Hair Text No. 3 (all that truth), 2016 | Synthetic Hair and Acrylic Medium on Canvas 48" x 60"
She touched without
asking. Although it
looked rough, it was
softer than expect-
ed. It smelled of herbs
and foreign rituals. It
was greasy. Anxiously,
she wiped her fingers.
Misled by his misuse of
the word, "exotic," she
refused to get a job.
Instead, she worked
what her mama gave
her. Her erotic exotic
became the currency
she lacked in her wallet.
She was repeatedly
told to tone it down.
"All that truth," they
said, "gonna get you
in trouble." She obliged.
Only later, to imitate
what they stole from
her in the first place.
The Hair Text paintings are a body of work informed by my observations of girls and women negotiating their existence in everyday spaces. The paintings read as fragmented journal entries where synthetic hair is manipulated in to a new writing system.