Bio
A resident of Fairfax, California, Julia Lucey got her BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and a MA in Education at Loyola Marymount University. As an Artist-in-Residence at Kala Art Institute, Julia has focused on traditional etching techniques and aquatint to create images dealing with the evolving issues of wildlife, its dissolution, and the attempt by many to direct its path. In the most current body of work, her traditional etchings are cut out of the paper and reassembled into new landscapes on panel.Education
BFA - San Francisco Art Institute MA - Loyola Marymount UniversitySelect Exhibitions
Solo
2023 - Menagerie - Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
2021 - As Above, So Below - Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
2019 - Forest For The Trees - Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
2019 - Ann Connelly Fine Art - Baton Rouge, LA
2016 - Wally Workman Gallery - Austin, TX
2015 - Rare Device - San Francisco, CA
2013 - Rare Device - San Francisco, CA
Group
2023
ArtKala - Kala Art Institute - Berkeley, CA
Mountain Standard Time - Visions West Contemporary - Denver, CO
2022
Not Your Average Bear - Visions West Contemporary - Denver, CO
ArtKala - Kala Art Institute - Berkeley, CA
2021
In Good Company, A Printmaker’s Group Exhibition - Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX ArtKala - Kala Art Institute - Berkeley, CA
Kaleidoscope - MiXX Atelier - Telluride, CO
Mountain Standard Time - Visions West Contemporary - Denver, CO
2020
Modern Animal Fables - Visions West Contemporary - Denver, CO
40th Anniversary Show - Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
ArtKala - Kala Art Institute - Berkeley, CA
2019
Prophecy of Nature - Luna Rienne Gallery - San Francisco, CA
ArtKala - Kala Art Institute - Berkeley, CAGrants and Residencies
Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute 2011 - Present 2016 Pirkle Jones Grant for Marin County Artists 2014 Sustainable Arts Grant for Parent ArtistsSelect Press
American Art Collector Magazine - January 2023
Aether Magazine - January 2019
Cultivating Place Podcast - North State Public Radio - October 2018
Statement:
My work has always been inspired by my love of being outside in wild places. It is not just the calming escape it creates, but the curiosity and desire to know what inhabits each place. In my current work I have been creating individual etchings of the plants and animals that live near my home in Northern California. Instead of editioning my etchings in a traditional way, I have instead been using the etchings as a base to build new landscapes. Where I have been closely paying attention to the shapes and locality of species in my etchings, I have become much looser in the way I collage and color them. I hand cut each plant out of the paper and then reassemble them on panel to create new worlds. In some of the worlds I reference narratives and folk tales I imagine could happen, but with local animals as the characters. Some collages reference scientific articles I have read about animal behavior and ecology. In other collages, I set the animal gaze out toward the viewer in judgement. And in others, the pieces are simply about the magical feeling of being in a wild space.