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Alchemy – Original Immersive Art Installation
- Donna Isham (painter) & Mark Isham (musical composition) (United States)
- Acrylic, oil, spray paint, graphite, and pen on stretched canvas with animation and original music
- Size: 114" W x 67" H
- Framing available upon request
- Painting includes the technology to project the synchronized sound and light
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Note that installation consultation is available
Alchemy is a monumental, one-of-a-kind immersive artwork by American expressionist painter Donna Isham and her Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer husband, Mark Isham — a collaboration that transforms a painting into a complete sensory world.
At over nine feet wide and nearly six feet tall, Alchemy transcends the traditional canvas. Donna's large-scale expressionist painting — bold, gestural, and alive with color — becomes the foundation for an immersive experience layered with Mark's original commissioned music and animated light. Together, the Ishams pull viewers deep into the emotional and psychological terrain of the human experience. You don't simply look at Alchemy. You enter it. As a large scale exploration of transformation, Alchemy examines how experience, emotion, and time reshape our understanding of ourselves. Through layers of color, texture and gesture, the work becomes a visual meditation on change.
The title is no accident. Alchemy is the ancient pursuit of turning base matter into gold — and this work invites us to consider that same transformation within ourselves. Themes of transcendence, resilience, and spirituality radiate across the canvas, while the fragile boundary between perception and reality dissolves in the interplay of paint, light, and sound. Alchemy embodies the Ishams' signature exploration of personal evolution — the quiet, extraordinary process of becoming.
This is a singular collector opportunity. Alchemy is a one-of-a-kind original immersive artwork.