BIOGRAPHY
Lucia Joy Fernandez (b. 1979) is a Spanish-American artist based in the Pacific Northwest. Raised by Cuban immigrants - an artist and a technologist - a passion for science, storytelling, and immersing herself in the natural world was formed. Lucia has lived, worked, and studied in many places throughout her life, all greatly influencing her way of seeing and understanding the world. With a background in architecture, her practice is grounded in curating work that inspires a heightened sense of awareness and experience of ourselves, each other, and the places we inhabit. Lucia lives with her husband amidst the wilderness of Northern Washington.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Creating is a vehicle - a way of knowing myself and the world.
The aim of my work is to translate what can be felt when connecting to the invisible thread running through all things - a force that is bold and fierce, yet light and untethered.
Through a process of uncovering and building upon layers, the work reveals a story within the space that exists between precision and abstraction. I seek that place out, the one that lies beyond our surface level of perception and taps into the unseen aspects of life - celebrating all that inspires hope and captures the essence of being alive.
Within the constant change and shifting landscapes of my life, there has always been a foundation of deep curiosity and desire to express what I experience through the lens of art and design - to explore and expose the balance between the stillness of the darkness and the movement and fluidity of light, through painting, drawing, building.
CONTACT
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