About
Born in Chicago, raised in New Orleans, Lucy uses bold color and line to pushes the relationship between her figures and their enivornment. Her paintings come from her real life experiences, but stray from strict figuration in order to push what is an “observable quality” of a moment. She finds that within the experince of a visual moment are clues to other subconcious thoughts and experinces.
Born in Chicago, raised in New Orleans, Lucy uses bold color and line to pushes the relationship between her figures and their enivornment. Her paintings come from her real life experiences, but stray from strict figuration in order to push what is an “observable quality” of a moment. She finds that within the experince of a visual moment are clues to other subconcious thoughts and experinces.
She looks to her art as a place to express tension that exists in physical space, with what is described literally and what is hidden. The tension of being moved by the structure and context that builds us up as people. To want to participate, but also feeling alone and trapped by the limits of our experience. Addionally, there is also great beauty that people can bring to something small or structured. If done with care, something regular can explode with color and shape. Therefore, she tries her best to care for the suject matter she portrays and bring an expansive persepctive to how she thinks about painting.
In terms of inspiriation, in her research process, she explores art that has served a religious or tradition based purpose with a mission to concider the interation between larger envoronemntal conditons of a time and the little personal details of a maker. This is because craft, and in a lot of instances religion based work, shines light on how people of a specific time and place were living more fully than an “unbiased” source. Even if she does not agree with the full view of each maker, seeing how something is made, and what it is made of allows her to see into another time and place most easily. She thinks a lot about how as humans we have build structures in our environements and in turn they shape us.
The material is the main guiding factor in how the creation starts and ends. Therefore, her experience with each medium is different! Although oil is her primary medium, she includes cermaics into her installation of painting work, and she has competed serveral installations and drawing books/graphic novels.
CV
2024 - NOAA (New Orleans Art Association) Annual Group show, New Orleans, LA
EDUCATION
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY B.A. Studio Arts
Select Group Exhibitions
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY B.A. Studio Arts
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
Solo Exhibitions
2024 - Not Too Pink, Not Too Blue, Red Hook, NY
2021 - Regarding Others, New Orleans, LA
Collections
Artworks in private collections held in New York, Louisiana, and West Virginia.
Self Potrait. 2023