Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating weathered, earthen abstractions: drawings, paintings and prints of enigmatic symbols of humanity in the natural environment.
Lithomancy is a process of divination through stones, a way of reading the past inscribed in matter, where time itself becomes an oracle. In her latest earth pigment painting series titled lithomancy, Lizzy looks at marks etched in stone since the Paleolithic Era and wonders, “How do we listen to the earth’s memories of humanity? How do we carry forward what must not be lost?” She uses earthen pigments to capture layers of mineral textures and energies, mimicking the elemental processes that recall matter accumulating, shifting under gravity and morphing over eons. Shapes echo through the ephemeral works on paper, conjuring symbols of ourselves, of humanity and the environment in a porous interchange, where traces of one within the other are inextricably entangled. The aesthetics of fragmentation and return—breaking apart and coming back together—speak to transformation, and to the cycles of metamorphosis that shape both stone and story. “If we could slow to the sedimentary pace of geologic time, what stories of resilience might we hear?” asks Lizzy. In a broad sense, practices of divination help us formulate better questions, as meaning emerges in the exchange between querent and diviner. “Answers, like sediment in water, like images in a dream, like cultures and mythologies, are never fixed, shaped by time, context and attention,” says Lizzy. “These works are an invitation to contemplate the marks we leave on the earth and each other.”
"through the gate aflame," pigment & gum on paper, 25 by 42 inches, 29 by 47 inches framed
"nothing more, nothing less," pigment & gum on collaged mulberry paper, 25 by 19 inches each, 27 by 21 inches framed each
"fear not, all will be revealed," pigment & gum on collaged mulberry, Bristol paper, 25 by 19 inches, 29 by 23 inches framed
"as long as you tend to the fire," pigment, gum, wax & ink on Bristol paper, 19 by 24 inches, 23 by 29 inches framed
"sounds of water and footsteps on stone," pigment, gum & wax on collaged Bristol paper, 24 by 18 inches, 29 by 23 inches framed
"tracing time: things appearing and disappearing," pigment & gum on collaged mulberry, Bristol & rag paper, 30 by 22 inches, 32 by 24 inches framed
"doorway moment i," pigment, gum, wax & acrylic on collaged paper, 25 by 19.5 inches
"doorway moment ii," pigment, gum, wax & acrylic on collaged paper, 25 by 19.5 inches
"tracing time: make our mark in the stars," pigment & gum on collaged mulberry, Bristol & rag paper, 30 by 22 inches, 32 by 24 inches framed
"to mend a life’s thread: walk like a star shines," pigment & gum on Bristol paper, 24 by 18 inches, 29 by 23 inches framed
"to mend a life’s thread: each step is a metamorphosis," pigment & gum on rag paper, 18 by 14 inches, 20 by 16 inches framed
Lizzy Storm received her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 2012, and her MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Drawing & Painting from Georgia State University in 2022. Her work has been exhibited at non-profits, artist-run spaces, universities, museums, and arts centers in the Northeast and Atlanta. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer of Foundations at the Welch School of Art and Design at GSU.
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