Miranda Lake is an encaustic collage artist living in New Orleans. In 2003 she was selected for Louisiana’s
No Dead Artists juried exhibition, then again in 2005 for the New Orleans Museum of Art’s Triennial of Southern Art, the oldest juried exhibition in the country. In 2007, Lake was invited to teach a digital encaustic collage workshop at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado and was selected to be included in the R&F Paints Encaustic Works Biennial.

Lake’s work combines one of the oldest, most archival forms of painting with the digital darkroom creating a bridge and exploring the tension between past and present, both personal and collective. Themes of rebirth and potential have been the primary focus of Lake’s work since Hurricane Katrina with a focus on the absurd contradictions of what it means to live in postdiluvian New Orleans while grounding these impressions in a very personal iconography.