About the Artist
Lisa Fogarty, a self-taught artist with a childhood obsession with comic book girls. A woman painting women, using the female gaze to create new archetypes and giving women agency by portraying them as subject, not objects. Exploring female identity by challenging traditional archetypes by reimagining women as complex, empowered, or transformative beings. Themes include the stretching and reshaping of self, the tension between authenticity and societal expectations, and how experiences imprint on one's physiology and psyche. The work has been described as "gentle vandalism".
The work has been shown in New York, Miami, Milan, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, San Fransisco, Lagos, Melbourne, Paris and Ghent.
Recent Work
Digital and physical experiments
Lisa Fogarty x Editions
(2023-2025)
A blend of physical and digital painting inspired by, and using, my extensive physical collection of vintage magazines (1900-1960s).
Several works from this collection has been shown internationally.
Only available on secondary.
The Feminine Mystique
(2025)
A collection of gif’s capturing real moments in a way that isn’t real at all. Mixing paintings, photos, handmade and codebased textures and using ai animation to help create surreal and ethereal movement. They are made frame by frame to create "glitchy" effects.
This was an experimental collection only available through claim codes, they are context clues to help you understand the inner and outer world of the artist.
Several works from this collection has been shown internationally.
Only available on secondary.
Whispers I-III (2025)
A dialogue between physical and digital forming an ethereal space where past, present, and the future can converge. Three artworks exploring my encounters with the Fates created with both physical and digital elements and a little bit of code.
Only available on secondary market.
Experiments
(2025)
Digital experiemnts loosely based on classic X-men characters. The base of each artwork is physical but has multiple layers of digital detail and distortion. In the collection you will also find other types of experiments including a fully on-chain token and the Whispers-series.
Only available on secondary.
Feminine Archetypes
(2024)
In the collective subconscious, our shared mental idea of women, famous psychatrist Carl Jung explained that we find preprogrammed archetypes like The Lover, the innocent damsel in distress (The Maiden), the wise woman (The Sage), the sorceress (The Mystic), the loving and caring Mother, the wildspirited Huntress and the powerful matriarch (The Queen).
These ideas, also called archetypes, are shared across cultures and time establishing them as the default boxes that we sort women into. It’s the Spice Girl you assign someone to be and how women are portrayed in religion and mythology.
These were first made as physicals in watercolor and ink then repainted digitally. Collectors had the option to recieve the digital version printed on top of the original physical.
Only available on secondary.
In Bloom
(2022)
A collection inspired by classic book quotes focusing on love, identity and obssession. Created using old magazine and book pages, ink, graffiti markers, pencil, gelpens and flower transfers.
Only available on secondary.
Watercolor Tuesday
(2021-2023)
A collection of traditional watercolor with nostalgic themes.
Only available on secondary.
Comic Book-y stuff
A mix of commissions and experiments.
Process and Influences
Vintage magazine pages are almost always present in the work, they form the base and inspiration for the collage that are visible in the backgrounds. Most of the work is starts out as physicals and sometimes it's distorted or overpainted with digital elements.
The work is largely influenced by the works of fairytale and mythology illustrators like John Bauer and Elsa Beskow, old comic books with nods to Anders Zorns bathing women and Gustav Klimts colors, patterns and backgrounds.
If you have questions about a specific piece, please reach out through socials.
Exhibitions / Features
THE LINE INSTITUTE
Featured artist
Group show, New Zealand (2025)
Shown work:
“Migraines”, The Feminine Mystique , 3 ed.
ART BASEL MIAMI
Group show, “Syntethic Mythologies”
Inscribing Miami, Art Miami (2025)
Shown work:
“Hide and seek”, The Feminine Mystique , 3 ed.
THE LINE INSTITUTE
New York (2025)
Shown work:
“Badkruka”, The Feminine Mystique , 3 ed.
THE MEMES BY 6529
Meme card #179
REDLION GAZETTE
Redlion Gazette #160 Cover, featured artist (2023)
FOMA MAGAZINE
Two page feature
Shown work:
“The Zapper”, Watercolor Tuesdays 1/1
IHAM GALLERY
Group show Paris, France (2023)
Shown work:
“Blue”, Vintage Girls 1/1
ART CRUSH GALLERY
New York, Milan, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, San Fransisco, Lagos, Melbourne, Paris and Ghent (2023)
Shown work:
“Attacked by shells”, Watercolor Tuesdays 1/1
“Blue”, Vintage Girls 1/1
“Worry" Feeling blue-series, Vintage Girls 1/1
“How about no”, Vintage Girls 1/1
“Morphine”, Editions , 25 ed.
“Push it”, Editions , 60 ed.
NFT NYC
Times Square billboards and other displays for NFT NYC (2023)
Shown work:
“Push it”, Editions , 60 ed.
SUMY NOVA
Artist Feature of the Month (Sept/Oct 2021)
Artwork, interview by Alexandre Lores, cover