Digital & Physical
LisaFogarty
Probably your new favorite artist
Artist Statement
Using the female gaze to create new archetypes
A self-taught artist with a childhood obsession with comic books and a never ending dislike for the color blue.
A woman painting women - exploring female identity by challenging traditional archetypes and reimagining women as complex, empowered, or transformative beings.
With a background and a degree in social work there are often references to attachment theory, mental health and Jungian archetypes. You can also find the marks from the time Fogarty has spent in psych wards as a teenager through the feelings of isolation, otherness and a disfigured sense of self.
Fogarty creates generational collages using vintage women magazines, mostly from 1920-1960s, and overpaints them to create a tension between the modern woman intergenerational layers.
She has been collecting and working with vintage magazines since 2015 and the oldest magazine pages she's used in her work was from 1896.
Lisa Fogarty × Editions
MANIFOLD / 2023–2025A blend of physical and digital painting inspired by, and using, an extensive physical collection of vintage magazines (1900–1960s) and comic books. Reinterpreting societal discourses on femininity in a provocative way.
The Feminine Mystique
MANIFOLD / 2025GIFs capturing real moments in a way that isn't real at all. Mixing paintings, photos, handmade and code-based textures with the help of AI animation to create surreal and ethereal movement. Made frame by frame to create glitchy effects.
Distributed only through claim codes.
Whispers I–III
SR + MANIFOLD / 2025A dialogue between physical and digital forming an ethereal space where past, present, and future converge. Three artworks exploring encounters with the Fates.
A part of the Experiments collection.
Feminine Archetypes
MANIFOLD / 2024In the collective subconscious, our shared mental idea of women, we find classic archetypes like the damsel in distress (The Maiden) and the powerful matriarch (The Queen). First made as watercolor and ink physicals, then repainted digitally.
Process & Inspiration
Influences and Materials
Vintage magazine pages are almost always present in the work - they form the base and inspiration for the collages visible in the backgrounds. Most work starts out as physicals and is sometimes later distorted or overpainted with digital elements.
The magazines highlight how many female narratives and archetypes are reoccuring even through some of the pages are over 100 years old.
Fogarty has been heavily influenced by fairytale and mythology illustrators like John Bauer and Elsa Beskow, old comic books, fashion illustration and Gustav Klimt's colors, patterns, and backgrounds.
Most commonly used materials are watercolor, graffiti markers, spray paint and handcut stencils, ink, gelpens and ephemera.
Wildflowers
KNOWNORIGIN / 2022–2023As young women we pick seven wildflowers on Midsummer's Eve and place them under our pillow to dream about the man we will marry. Vintage magazine pages, markers, ink, pencil, watercolor, gouache.
In Bloom
MANIFOLD 2022Classic book quotes about love, identity, obsession.
Old magazine pages, ink, graffiti markers, gel pens, flower transfers.
"Hide & Seek"
"Migraines"
"Hide and seek"
"Burn it all down"
"Attacked by shells" · "Blue" · "Worry" · "Morphine" · "Push it"
Experiments
MANIFOLD 2025Digital experiments loosely based on classic X-Men characters. Physical base with multiple layers of digital detail and distortion.
This series also includes other experiments: a fully on-chain token, the Whispers series and more.
Physical and digital
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TW: SELF HARM
KNOWNORIGIN / 2022When I self harmed I would cut words into my skin - UGLY, SLUT, WHORE. The first word I cut when I was 11. A small collection explaining what it meant to me and destigmatizing self harm, something no one knows how to talk about.
SuperRare
SUPERRARE / 2021–2025A small selection of artworks minted on SR.
