About
Raised in New Orleans, Lucy Galyean is a mixed media artist primarily working in hand-drawn illustration and in oil paint. She graduated from Bard College with a B.A. in Studio Arts and has artwork in private collections held in New York, Louisiana, and West Virginia. For the past two years her work has been exhibited in the NOAA Annual show and had her first solo show in New Orleans in at the The Building gallery. Currently, she is working on promoting her book dummy called “Celine’s Wish”.
Painting from life moments and dreams are a way of sharing her Everyday Pace.
Slow and considered? Overwhelming and bright? How does your experience shape your day to day pace? How does the natural environment affect that perception? Being in New Orleans for most of her life, the warm rain and social environment of the city affects the pace of the life she lives, even when away. As a result, she is often drawn to warm, bright colors and social subjects.
The artists she draws from are oil painters and surrealists such as Odilon Redon and Remedios Varo; Japanese Nihonga artists such as Hishida Shunsō, Higashiyama Kaii, and Hiroshi Senju; currently she has been loving illustrators of children's books such as Jessica Love, or Akiko Miyakoshi. She admires how these artists carry the stories in their work through a clear vocabulary and showcase the relatable and exciting moments of life. She doesn’t feel like she has yet arrived at a stable place or vocabulary and finds this middle space exciting and full of possibilities.
Raised in New Orleans, Lucy Galyean is a mixed media artist primarily working in hand-drawn illustration and in oil paint. She graduated from Bard College with a B.A. in Studio Arts and has artwork in private collections held in New York, Louisiana, and West Virginia. For the past two years her work has been exhibited in the NOAA Annual show and had her first solo show in New Orleans in at the The Building gallery. Currently, she is working on promoting her book dummy called “Celine’s Wish”.
Painting from life moments and dreams are a way of sharing her Everyday Pace.
Slow and considered? Overwhelming and bright? How does your experience shape your day to day pace? How does the natural environment affect that perception? Being in New Orleans for most of her life, the warm rain and social environment of the city affects the pace of the life she lives, even when away. As a result, she is often drawn to warm, bright colors and social subjects.
The artists she draws from are oil painters and surrealists such as Odilon Redon and Remedios Varo; Japanese Nihonga artists such as Hishida Shunsō, Higashiyama Kaii, and Hiroshi Senju; currently she has been loving illustrators of children's books such as Jessica Love, or Akiko Miyakoshi. She admires how these artists carry the stories in their work through a clear vocabulary and showcase the relatable and exciting moments of life. She doesn’t feel like she has yet arrived at a stable place or vocabulary and finds this middle space exciting and full of possibilities.
CV
2024 - NOAA (New Orleans Art Association) Annual Group show, New Orleans, LA
EDUCATION
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY B.A. Studio Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2025 - Everyday Pace, The Building, New Orleans, LA
2024 - Not Too Pink, Not Too Blue, Red Hook, NY
2021 - Regarding Others, New Orleans, LA
Select Group Exhibitions
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY B.A. Studio Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2025 - Everyday Pace, The Building, New Orleans, LA
2024 - Not Too Pink, Not Too Blue, Red Hook, NY
2021 - Regarding Others, New Orleans, LA
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 - MFA Staff Group Show, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2023 - NOAA (New Orleans Art Association) Annual Group show, New Orleans, LA
2023 - Suspension, UBS Gallery Spaces, Red Hook, NY
2023 - Night Life, UBS Gallery Spaces, Red Hook, NY
Collections
Artworks in private collections held in New York, Louisiana, and West Virginia.
Self Potrait. 2023
Contact at lucy@studiofg.com