Introducing Lucinda Luvaas

INTRODUCING LUCINDA LUVAAS...

"This is an artist who is in touch with her unconscious mind, and not afraid to take a good look at what is there. Her extraordinary insights, filtered through a perceptive female intelligence, are serious ones that are often hilariously conveyed." Mary Alice Cline, The Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA

"You seldom get an artist who's both prolific and very attentive to all the details in her work. It never looks cranked out." Nancy Kapitanoff, LA Times

"Luvaas's paintings focus on the way personal realities intersect and interact with social ones, and her fundamental signifying unit to explore this interaction is gesture. Luvaas recognizes that surrounding every human gesture is an aura of silence, a zone of transparency which distances it from other gestures and from objects and beings. She presents us with the equivalent of a social ecosystem in which gestures are the inhabiting life forms. By stressing the importance of gesture, Luvaas is also emphasizing the fusion of life and communication." Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Catalogue: From Narrative to Magic Realism, Lehigh University

"It is very reassuring when you find mature adults who are open and free enough to express the joy and celebration of life in their artwork. The artwork itself tells you that the artist had fun making it." Lee Musgrave, LA Times

Lucinda Luvaas's work is shown nationally and abroad. She has exhibited in museums and universities in New York, California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ontario, Canada. Although her primary medium is oil painting, she creates work in varied mediums including: gouache, monotype, etching, painted wall sculpture, casein, murals and recently has expanded into multi-media projects.

Her interior and exterior public art commissions include murals for John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC, and WNET-TV, both in NYC.

Her work has been the subject of television specials including: "Good Morning America", CBS German TV, WNET-TV, NYC and the San Diego Art Scene.

Ms. Luvaas has also been interviewed for a Sunday Special on National Public Radio and her work has been the subject of magazine articles including: Americana Magazine, and Japanese Cosmopolitan.

She has taught studio painting and mural painting workshops at UCSD, La Jolla, CA, Queens College, The New York Department of Parks and Recreation, National University, San Diego, CA, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, NYC, Learning Through An Expanded Arts, NYC, New York State Community Arts Centers and the Southern Vermont Art Center. Currently, she devotes her time to multi-media work and is the Director/Curator of Mt. San Jacinto College's Fine Art Gallery, in San Jacinto, CA.