Julia Lucey’s art is Trying to Fit In

When I saw that California creator Julia Lucey had a caller exhibition, Trying to Fit In, astatine Wally Workman Gallery successful Austin, I instantly made plans to spot it. I archetypal admired her mixed media collages successful past year’s exhibition astatine the gallery.

This clip astir Lucey’s experimenting with printing plants connected apical of each different alternatively than collaging each of them. And she’s adding quality plan elements similar polka dots to play with the earthy camouflage that animals trust on. Watch her artist’s talk to larn more.

Here’s a statement of her existent amusement from Wally Workman:

“Lucey’s assemblage of enactment is deceivingly playful. In her depictions of nature, the oculus is drawn to the agleam colors and intricate details of her craft, but the underlying messages successful them notation the issues facing wildlife, its dissolution, and the effort by galore to redirect its path. Animals are struggling to find their spot to beryllium wrong shrinking habitats, wherever the ecology is being cemented implicit by mankind. In her pieces, the animals deterioration a costume oregon camouflage arsenic a means for survival, to fell from us, arsenic our expanding encroachment increases our encounters with them. Lucey wants to brighten this dismal foretelling and suggest anticipation for a equilibrium betwixt the earthy and the built worlds. She creates accepted aquatint etchings, past she cuts and collages the good insubstantial into elaborate compositions, completing the portion by coating connected the collaged surface. The effect is simply a ocular tableau overmuch similar the European tapestries of the 17th Century but with a 21st Century message.”

There’s truthful overmuch item to observe successful each piece.

Lucey features autochthonal plants and animals from her location portion successful California.

The moodier ones are my favorites.

But the fanciful portraits are appealing too.

This 1 gives Austin vibes with its owls and bats.

Which 1 is your favorite?

If you’re funny successful seeing Trying to Fit In, spell soon. The past time is Sunday, September 29th.

I invited your comments. Please scroll to the extremity of this station to permission one. If you’re speechmaking successful an email, click present to sojourn Digging and find the remark container astatine the extremity of each post. And hey, did idiosyncratic guardant this email to you, and you privation to subscribe? Click present to get Digging delivered straight to your inbox!

__________________________

Digging Deeper

Come larn astir gardening and plan astatine Garden Spark! I signifier in-person talks by inspiring designers, scenery architects, authors, and gardeners a fewer times a twelvemonth successful Austin. These are limited-attendance events that merchantability retired quickly, truthful articulation the Garden Spark email database to beryllium notified successful advance; simply click this nexus and inquire to beryllium added. Season 8 kicks disconnected successful autumn 2024. Stay tuned for much info!

All worldly © 2024 by Pam Penick for Digging. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.

The station Julia Lucey’s creation is Trying to Fit In appeared archetypal connected Digging.