Melissa Ann Lambert

Current

Visual Artist at http://MelissaAnnLambert.com
Fine Artist at www.MelissaAnnLambert.com

Past

Software Engineer at Time Warner

Education

Self Taught

Connections

15 connections

Industry

Fine Art

Websites

My Website

Melissa Ann Lambert’s Summary

Melissa Ann Lambert is a a mixed media artist whose works include traditional media digital or new media, and combinations of both.

While working as a Software Engineer, she began to build a body of newly inspired works in late 2002. With experimentation, she soon learned to make art incorporating elements from her traditional medium works, photography, and a variety of digital methods.

Melissa is in a new exhibit called Intuitive Eye: The Diana Zlotnick Collection February 18 - March 26, 2009 at the Art Gallery, Los Angeles Valley College, 5800 Fulton Avenue, Valley Glen, CA 91401

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has named Diana one of the leading art collectors in California. Her specialty is finding, recognizing and collecting new artistic talent. Andy Warhol, Robert Raushenberg, Ed Rusha, Wallace Berman, George Herms, are a few of the artists she was among the first to collect. Ms. Lambert has been invited to participate in the Florence Biennial in 2009

In April of 2008, Ms. Lambert's work was selected for "Perfect with Pixel", an international exhibition that focuses on works that are done by integrating digital with traditional art-making methods. In December 200, curators Rex Bruce from the LA Center for Digital Art, Howard Fox of LACMA, and Peter Frank of the Riverside County Museum of Art juried a selection from her "current work" series into a show at LACDA which ran through September 6, 2008.

Exhibition experience includes shows at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Bakery Art Exhibitions in Culver City, NoHo Gallery LA in North Hollywood, and 2nd City Council in Long Beach. In 2007, Melissa received a Durfee Foundation ARC (Artists Resource for Completion) Grant.

Writer Michael Ned Holte has said of her work “Employing an arsenal of digital tools, Melissa Lambert mines a hallucinatory territory embedded with personal codes and signals that lend her dizzying, pixelated surfaces unusual depth.”

Melissa Ann Lambert’s Specialties:

I am interested in working collaboratively with other artists, seeking gallery opportunities, and doing commissioned work.

Melissa Ann Lambert’s Experience

Visual Artist

http://MelissaAnnLambert.com

(Fine Art industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

Self-taught artist, former Software Engineer at Time Warner.
Fine Artist

www.MelissaAnnLambert.com

(Fine Art industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

Melissa Ann Lambert
Self-taught Artist and Software Engineer

Exhibitions

Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery at Bowling Green State University, School of Art, Bowling Green, Ohio
“Perfect with Pixel”, Shaurya Kumar, curator
9/9 – 10/5, 2008

The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art - Rex Bruce, Artist, Curator, Director L.A. Center for Digital Art
8/14 – 9/6, 2008

Bakery Art Exhibitions (BAE) - “Mindscapes/Seascapes,” Joseph De Mario, curator
3/29 – 5/23, 2008

NoHo Gallery LA - “New Beginnings III,” Daniel Coronado DeBevoise, curator
11/24 – 12/28, 2007

Bakery Art Exhibitions (BAE) - “The Natural,” Joseph De Mario, curator
8/18 – 10/12, 2007

2nd City Council - “Art & Science,” Corby Waste, Juror
7/28 – 9/6, 2007

Armory Center for the Arts - “Medical/Arts,” Newtown, curator
3/24 – 5/13, 2007

2nd City Council - “News,” Meghan Daum, The Los Angeles Times, juror
3/21 – 5/31, 2007

Grants

Durfee Foundation ARC (Artists Resource for Completion Grant), 2007
Software Engineer

Time Warner

(Music industry)

January 2000 — April 2003 (3 years 4 months)

WARNER MUSIC GROUP, WARNER-ELEKTRA-ATLANTIC Burbank, CA

Created technical and functional design specifications as well as user/system documentation and instruction manuals, system interfaces, and business/system process diagrams for business analysis. Provided production support for order management reporting and automated invoice chain. Research, data transfer/mapping details, process flows, user accounts.
· Implemented new Order Management System that replaced legacy system software with an innovative interface that increased productivity, efficiency and profitability.
· Designed complex reports and queries using sub classed libraries and Visual Basic to create highly flexible custom reports showing data based upon user-selectable parameters.
· Developed index overlays that allowed Cold Storage Retrieval System to convert PDF files to text resulting in faster retrieval by user defined indexes.

Melissa Ann Lambert’s Education

Self Taught

I listened to my parents, who said in response to my high-school art teacher's request to go to art school, "you can't make money as an artist!." So I bought a computer and programming books and worked my way up the food chain through various computer programming jobs, and landed at Time Warner (Warner Elektra Atlantic). Around 2003, I began painting three to four hours every evening. I didn't have any schooling for art, but the influence of knowing a lot of computer skills helped lead me in the current direction my work is taking, combining digital technologies with traditional art-making methods.