Spotlight Artist

Lucy Maki

West
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Diamond Cut Structure

Abstract geometric artwork with intersecting black, green, and yellow lines and shapes.

acrylic media, collage, wood, and canvas over shaped support

Folding Origami

Geometric wall art with triangular patterns in gray, white, and black zebra stripes.

acrylic media, aluminum plate, fabric collage, forged nails, wood, and shaped panel

Diamond Cut Space

Geometric abstract design with dark, light, and yellow intersecting shapes and lines

acrylic media, collage, and canvas shaped support

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Artist Statement

 I am fascinated with the 1930s New Mexican Transcendental Painting Gro-up’s belief that the most important role of art is to provide access to a realm of knowing beyond ordinary consciousness. Taking it a step further is the idea of an invisible framework for existence, and that out of an apparent chaos there is an unknown order that can be tapped. Each eccentrically shaped painting/construction is a demonstration and reflection of this hypothesis.

My work begins with the exploration of the shaped canvas/panel as a painting object. It takes the idea of the rectangular stretcher and extends the “stretcher bars” outside the picture plane, allowing the painting to grow into space. Architectural thought organizes the inside/outside pictorial space, while gestures of modernist painting and design define the surface. Material and process also factor in and are essential to the schematics of the painting. Abstraction is used as a reflection of mind, with geometric imagery conveying a personal and felt exploration of the processes of illusion and perception. Nothing eventually evolves into an apparent something.

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