Ligel Lambert

Ligel Lambert is an assemblage artist and painter who has exhibited extensively in New York, Georgia, and Florida as well as shown internationally in Melbourne, Australia. Notable exhibitions include The Philip J. Steele Gallery in Lakewood, Colorado, multiple showings at Macy Gallery in Columbia University, New York, Telfair Museum at Savannah State University, BOCCARA Fine Art Brooklyn, New York Art Center, Artexpo New York, and Horizon Gallery in Savannah, Georgia. Ligel has been published by Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design as well as Studio Visit Magazine. His awards include a category prize in painting at Jacksonville’s Art at the Met - Jax Jazz Fest as well as best in show grand prize at SunFest Art Festival.

These lyrically-based compositions are heavily inspired by music and often contain musical notes incorporated in the composition to represent Ligel Lambert’s passion for audio experiences. Much like fine jazz music, his assemblages and paintings are composed in a manner of a swinging dance, full of life and complex compositional components. Ligel’s newer works tend to depict notable academics he admires, scholars such as Derrick Adams, Meleko Mokgosi, Robert Reed, Sanford Biggers, and Jacob Lawrence. These compositions bloom and blast with notable colors which seem to symbolically represent the creativity of the subject’s mind. The slightly older works by Ligel tend to be non-figurative in nature and are typically assemblages of various paper materials such as newspapers assembled with strategically placed painting. 

Ligel’s assemblages symbolically represent yearning for social change either through abstract depictions of notes arranged in chaotic arrangements or more literally with the American flag emblazoned with the words ‘Black Lives Matter’. The assemblages contain a screening effect where several components are revealed through a window-like structure of the cutout newsprint, as if revealing deeper philosophies the artist wishes to convey. With a sense of pop art, the depictions of notable scholars represents Ligel’s sense of identity. Through these academics, he sees himself shaped as a man in intellectual vigor and wishes to thank these men through these expressive celebratory paintings which reveal individualistic characteristics into each representation. Each figure becomes expressed through carved-in colorful geometry within compositions which have kaleidoscope vortex-like abstractions, centering the subject into focus with a pop-out effect. 

# BlackLivesMatter (pictured above) remains one of Ligel’s most powerful works. With symbolic power, the work not only conveys poignant social messaging but also utilizes technical and improvisational prowess. With a sense of revealing notable knowledge, the piece conveys a hidden message behind a windowed blackened American flag followed by a circle of newspaper articles related to the theme. 

Ligel Lambert can be regarded as a highly communicative artist who uses symbolism, improvised assemblage, and pop art effects to convey his concepts, whether they be his admiration for scholarly Black men or wanting to raise awareness about the value of life. Ligel uses his creative intuition to build a sense of connection to community, respect, and pure aesthetic expression. Through a gifted brush and a lush understanding of composed form, his lyrical compositions express musical connotations to form and conceptual layouts.

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