Gina Lucia

Gina Lucia
Palisades Park, New Jersey, USA

STATEMENT

Our bodies by construction imitate objects in nature that keep us alive. However, we are as ephemeral as the leaves on a tree and as we evolve, change form and respond to environmental changes, we shed our leaves, our skin, we transform, wither and die. The very essence of our existence is as ephemeral as our world, our planet and all of the living things in the ecosystem. Human kind is a part of the earth as are all of the creatures, insects, birds, plants and other organic matter. Though we believe that we matter more than all of other living matter, human kind is nothing more than organic matter. Organic matter resembling all other life forms: the roots of trees resemble our lungs, like waterways and estuaries flow for plant life and other life to thrive. Small ventricles of life that expand and contract to bring air, food and water to our bodies and nourish our organs. As larvae transform into caterpillars and caterpillars into butterflies and the seasons transform into one another there is a rebirth of matter and a transformation that imitates nature and nature imitates man, all fragile, beautiful and ephemeral; such is the ephemeral waltz of the butterfly.

BIO

Gina Lucia is an American Art Director, Digital Collage Artist, Designer, Illustrator, Author and Educator.

She has been published in the U.S., Brazil and Spain and has exhibited her work in galleries in New York City, Brooklyn, New York, Los Angeles, California, Laguna Beach, California and Jersey City, New Jersey. Lucia earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Arts from Montclair State University and a graduate
degree in Communication Design from Pratt Institute. She has taught Graphic Design at Montclair State University and at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Lucia has been published in the U.S., Brazil and Barcelona, Spain and has exhibited her work in such galleries as the PPOW Gallery in New York City, Broadway Gallery in New York City, A.I.R Gallery and Interstate Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, Solas Gallery in New York City, Las Laguna Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, California and The Mary Benson Gallery in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her artworks have been published by Rockport Publishers in a book entitled 1,000 Music Graphics. Lucia is a former member of the artist collectives LaOla and 3R5 and is a current member of the Solas Artists Collective in New York City.

Lucia has received numerous awards and accolades from Graphic Design USA, The Art Director’s Club of New Jersey and NJIABC. She has been a contributing artist to the “Global Inheritance Recycling Project” at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California and exhibited her environmentally conscious art in the “Trashed” group art exhibit at the POVevolving Gallery in Los Angeles.

Lucia wrote, illustrated and self published a children’s book entitled, Serenity Meow.

Lucia’s mixed media collage work fuses commercial and fine art techniques. Hand drawn sketches are combined with found objects, photography, hand-rendered typography and presented in a thought-provoking photomontage. Inspired by music, Surrealism and the Freudian concept of free association, personal experiences and heartbreak, everyday encounters with objects, people and places, the current social and political climate, her collages are spontaneous juxtapositions of unlikely things. She incorporates elements of pop culture; viscera; nature; animals; insects; and other eclectic ephemera into her work. The harmonious commingling of both digital technology and fine art techniques has allowed her to redefine and refine her art.

ARTIST CONTACT

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(201) 321-5945
www.gina-lucia.com

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