Born in the Midwest, Lucy grew up in Tepoztlán, a small town in Mexico that boasts an eclectic gathering of local
and foreign artists. Lucy’'s artistic identity is informed by
her bi-cultural upbringing, as well as her passion for dance and movement.
Lucy has collaborated with Olivia Corson, founder of Body Tales , exhibiting her work at improvisational movement and storytelling performances. Her work is also privately collected, with two major outdoor installations in Kitzmiller, Maryland. Lucy has sculpted for the last 6 years and works out of her home-studio in Oakland.
We exist through our bodies. The body is where our many realities come together; the elusive, mysterious, spirit world of imagery and intuition interweaves with the equally perplexing world of tangible reality. In my own body I feel the tension of bringing many levels of experience together and attempting to make sense of the modern world we've created. In our awareness, money economies, microchips and the comfort of asphalt slam up against mossy redwood groves and dance with the swoop of an owl in evening flight. These worlds exist within each other; whether in opposition or harmony, they are forever interwoven.
The complexity of our roles -- as guardians, creators, witnesses -- is the inspiration for my figures, creatures that are straddling worlds and sensing all that comes with that bridging.
My most recent series uses the figure's proportions, carriage and skin as a vocabulary to express who we are. Generous, fleshy thighs and hips ground them in their sensual experience.
Large hands attest to our potential to both sense and create. Big, expressive feet speak to our path in life, our ability to be actors forging our destiny.
Tapering torsos with long languid necks, small heads, ample headpieces and distant gazes emphasize the intuitive over the rational, the weightless rising of our thoughts. Our bodies, our skin, our tissue, our hearts record our experience and speak in constant murmurs and shouts. Likewise, the clay surfaces and the gestures of the pieces speak to our ability to record our experiences within our bodies; they are testimony to the reverence we feel for being alive along with the lesions from the trauma we've endured.
Perhaps art is an exploration, a transformation from the tension between the sorrow, the dismay, and the reverence and humility in witnessing our lives. It is an attempt to make sense and thereby understand the meaning of the symphony of our existence.
Group Exhibitions
2011 - Fort Mason
Ceramics Annual of America
San Francisco, CA
2011 - Ruth Bancroft Garden
Annual Sculpture in the Garden
Walnut Creek, CA
2010 - Ruth Bancroft Garden
2009 - Ruth Bancroft Garden
2008 - Ruth Bancroft Garden
Solo Exhibitions
2009 - Body Tales Performance
July Improvisational Storytelling and Movement
Berkeley, CA
May Improvisational Storytelling and Movement
Commissions
2008 - Private Collection of Vladimir Dupre,
Kitzmiller MD
2007 - Private Collection of Vladimir Dupre,
Kitzmiller, MD
Education
2010 Academy of Art University
Ceramic sculpture course
2008 Diablo Valley College
2004 - 2007 Merritt / Laney College
5 semesters of Ceramic Sculpture
1996 - 2000 UC at Berkeley
BA in Development Studies and Literature
