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Lisa Pressman
The Shape of Memory: Textured Abstract Mixed Media Organic Wall Art Sculpture

2025

$975
£738.44
€862.54
CA$1,395.70
A$1,414.82
CHF 804.71
MX$17,222.35
NOK 9,438.44
SEK 9,461.51
DKK 6,447.47

About the Item

The Shape of Memory embodies Lisa Pressman’s long investigation into how memory lives within the body, surface, and time. This sculptural mixed media work is both painting and object—built through layers of wax, pigment, and mark-making that hold traces of gesture like archaeological fragments. Its organic form feels unearthed rather than constructed, evoking the way memories surface, fade, and transform. Pressman’s signature use of translucency and opacity creates a poetic tension between what is revealed and concealed. Unlike traditional wall pieces, this work physically projects into space, blurring boundary and edge, past and present. Intimate yet powerful, it invites close looking and emotional resonance—each layer a reminder that memory is not fixed, but alive, shifting, and deeply human.

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