Lydia Viscardi Art
Lydia Viscardi is best known for her representational mixed media collages that combine highly detailed realistic painted and drawn imagery with flat shapes cut out from patterned papers and fabrics. Her work demonstrates a sustained interest in exploring the complex relationship between humans and animals. She is also fascinated with neuroscience and memory, particularly childhood memory, and how it informs adult identity. Viscardi mines her own childhood and past for potent experiences that she depicts with both humor and an uneasiness that creates psychological tension. This irony imbues her two-dimensional mixed media Childworks and Recollections series and her assemblage sculpture. Viscardi teaches Studio Art at Quinnipiac University and Housatonic Community College and is a museum educator at the Housatonic Museum of Art and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Selected exhibitions include the Drawing Center, ODETTA, Sideshow Gallery, Active Space, Brooklyn Fireproof and The Heckscher Museum of Art in New York, Center for Visual Arts in New Jersey and The Barnum Museum and the Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut. The complexity of memory, particularly the potency of earliest experiences and how these inform adult identity, is a primary focus of Lydia Viscardi's mixed media work. Childhood is innocent and benign, yet often fraught with fear and anxiety. The physiology of memory lies at the center of our identity, determining who we are and who we become. Additionally, she is quite interested in the complex relationship between humans and animals and our connection to our instinctive animal nature. Depending on cultural heritage and convictions, certain animals are exalted, revered, protected, feared, reviled, or loved as family members while others are thought of as commodities to be used for food, man’s bidding for labor or scientific research.
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Color Pencil, Found Objects, Digital
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Color Pencil, Digital, Found Objects
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Color Pencil, Found Objects, Digital
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Acrylic, Found Objects, Digital, Oil
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Color Pencil, Digital, Found Objects
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Found Objects, Digital, Acrylic, Oil
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Ink, Found Objects, Acrylic, Digital
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Oil, Found Objects, Acrylic, Digital
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Digital, Ink, Found Objects, Acrylic
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Found Objects, Digital, Acrylic, Ink
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Lydia Viscardi Art
Gouache, Ink, Color Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Lydia Viscardi Art
Crayon, Found Objects, Gouache, Color Pencil
1950s Lydia Viscardi Art
Color Pencil, Board, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Lydia Viscardi Art
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
2010s Contemporary Lydia Viscardi Art
Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite, Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Lydia Viscardi Art
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Lydia Viscardi Art
Glass, Plastic, Wood, Paper, Oil, Found Objects, Acrylic
2010s Post-Modern Lydia Viscardi Art
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
2010s Folk Art Lydia Viscardi Art
Found Objects, House Paint, Acrylic, Graphite
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Lydia Viscardi Art
Found Objects, Glitter, Photographic Paper
2010s Contemporary Lydia Viscardi Art
Canvas, Resin, Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Lydia Viscardi Art
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil, Cardboard
2010s Contemporary Lydia Viscardi Art
Mixed Media, Resin, Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper
2010s Abstract Lydia Viscardi Art
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Found Objects, Ink, Acrylic, Digital
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Found Objects, Color Pencil, Digital
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Found Objects, Color Pencil, Digital
2010s Other Art Style Lydia Viscardi Art
Found Objects, Color Pencil, Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Lydia Viscardi Art
Gouache, Digital Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Lydia Viscardi Art
Oil, Digital Pigment
20th Century Post-Modern Lydia Viscardi Art
Archival Pigment, Gouache, Pencil