Artist Lucinda Young

Lucinda Young – Artist Statement

I work in encaustic on panel, often burning, and incising initial ideas into the wood support. Images are buried, excavated and redefined using a variety of drawing and print making processes, together with multiple translucent overlays of oil paint, pure beeswax, and dry mineral pigments. For me, the drawn line, the thought behind the line, hold immense potency: In committing to a line, any line, I invoke a narrative and visual heritage which connects me with the earliest makers of pictographs and hieroglyphics and dare to insert myself into an ongoing dialogue with all of art history.

As a European emigrant I live in a chosen exile from my country of origin. My work often maps a sense of journey, actual or metaphorical, though landscape, external and internal, that is intrinsically foreign and mysterious. In 2004-2005, following a trip to south east Asia where I spent my childhood, I made a large body of work entitled The Silk Road Series (Letters Home), which examined ideas about “authenticity,” historicism and personal mythology. A subsequent body of work, Learning to Breath In The Desert arose from my present relocation in the Sonoran Desert and explored issues of survival, adaptation and regeneration, the narrow margins separating transformation and extinction in this rigorous environment.

This new body of work Terrain: Body As Landscape reflects my current sense of standing just over the cusp of my own half century, the landscape of my life pushing against my spine, my aging body my only known vessel for the passage forward. This past summer, a return to England for the observation of my father’s death lead me to re-examine both my own mythology – it’s stamp on my corporeal landscape – and the haunting mythos of the Illiad. The Greeks made their gods in their own image. There, in the familiar, pastoral landscape of my adolescence and young adulthood, - I thought about “sacred landscape,” about the information held in a scar, about relationships of intimacy and inversion, and landscape as the collective body.

In my work, the layers of beeswax, looped and stained with pigment, “tattooed” with iconography, clearly reference “skin.” The final surface of my work typically juxtaposes areas of luminosity and translucence with deeply engraved passages, dense with information. As a painting medium, encaustic – ever volatile – collapses the divide between time and space and provides the experience of unsolicited epiphany, apt metaphor for the body itself and for the elusive landscape on which we may stand, fully human.

Resume

Education

Exhibitions

Solo:

2006 Terrain: The Body as Landscape, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ.
2005 Out of the Ashes, Solo Exhibit at Liz Hernandez Gallery, Tucson, AZ.
2005 Solo 2-year Retrospective and Selection of Recent Work, Central Arizona College
2004 The Rillito Passion (mixed media installation), DCA Gallery, Tucson AZ
2004 The Spanda Suite, 3-Falk Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2004 A Different Perspective, Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM
2003 New Paintings and Recent Work, Phantom Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2003 Between Here and There, Gallery at Hotel Congress, Tucson, AZ
2002 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA.

2006 Lucinda Young/Susan Davidoff, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006 3-in1, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Emerging Women: Visual arts and The New Feminism, Oakland Museum, CA
2006 Regional Invitational Encaustic Show, DCA Gallery Tucson, AZ
2006 In The Square, Southern Contemporary Arts Center, Winchester, Hants, UK
2006 Rising From Instinct, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson AZ
2006 First Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson AZ
2005 SHE OBJECTS!, Conrad Wilde Gallery, curated by Simon Donovan, Tucson AZ
2005 Heart/Felt, Mind/Spirit Gallery, Sausalito, CA
2005 Works on Paper: 5 Contemporary Regional Artists, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2005 New Mexico State Regional Invitational, Las Cruces, NM
2005 Small Works Invitational, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2005 Emerging Contemporary Artists Expo, Liz Hernandez Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2005 The Experimental Monoprint, Group Invitational, UC Berkeley Gallery, CA
2004 Parallel Worlds, Liz Hernandez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2004 What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2004 Small Works Invitational, DCA Gallery, Tucson AZ
2004 The 3-Falk Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2004 Spring Invitational, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2004 Ascensio Fine Art and Design, Tucson, AZ
Fault Lines, Lodo Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2004 Visiones de Mujeres / Tucson Women Artists, Raices Teller, Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2004 Sharing Space, Summer Invitational, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2004 Wherefore Art Thou? (Artists contemplate Shakespeare) Etherton Gallery at The Temple of Art and Music, Tucson, AZ
2003 Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM
2003 Menlo Fine Arts, Sausalito, CA
2003 Spring Invitational, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2003 Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM
Ascensio Fine Art and Design, Tucson, NM
2003 Wash and Ravage (mixed media installation), DCA Gallery, Tucson AZ
2003 Ascensio Fine Art and Design, Tucson, AZ
Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM
2003 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2003 Narrative and Line, University of Berkeley Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Sight and Insight, Mill Valley, CA
2002 Mission District Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2002 The Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM
2002 Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Sight and Insight Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2002 The Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2002 Spring Invitational, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2002 Southampton University Art Gallery, Southampton, Hants, UK
2002 LGBT Center Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Sight and Insight Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2001 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2001 Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 TransAmerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA.
2001 Marin Arts Council Community Gallery, Corte Madera, CA
2001 Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Artspace: Marin Community Foundation, San Rafael CA
2000 The Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA.
2000 The City Art Gallery, University of California Extension, San Francisco, CA
1999 The Atrium Gallery, Wells Fargo Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, CA.
1999 Artspace: Marin Community Foundation, Corte Madera, CA
1999 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
1998 Falkirk Gallery, San Rafael, CA
1998 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
1998 Bishops Waltham Manor Gallery, Bishops Waltham, Hants, UK
1998 The Women’s Building Gallery, San Francisco, CA



	Lucinda Young – Artist Statement I work in encaustic on panel, often burning, and incising initial ideas into the wood support. Images are buried, excavated and redefined using a variety of drawing and print making processes, together with multiple translucent overlays of oil paint, pure beeswax, and dry mineral pigments. For me, the drawn line, the thought behind the line, hold immense potency: In committing to a line, any line, I invoke a narrative and visual heritage which connects me with the earliest makers of pictographs and hieroglyphics and dare to insert myself into an ongoing dialogue with all of art history. As a European emigrant I live in a chosen exile from my country of origin. My work often maps a sense of journey, actual or metaphorical, though landscape, external and internal, that is intrinsically foreign and mysterious. In 2004-2005, following a trip to south east Asia where I spent my childhood, I made a large body of work entitled The Silk Road Series (Letters Home), which examined ideas about “authenticity,” historicism and personal mythology. A subsequent body of work, Learning to Breath In The Desert arose from my present relocation in the Sonoran Desert and explored issues of survival, adaptation and regeneration, the narrow margins separating transformation and extinction in this rigorous environment. This new body of work Terrain: Body As Landscape reflects my current sense of standing just over the cusp of my own half century, the landscape of my life pushing against my spine, my aging body my only known vessel for the passage forward. This past summer, a return to England for the observation of my father’s death lead me to re-examine both my own mythology – it’s stamp on my corporeal landscape – and the haunting mythos of the Illiad. The Greeks made their gods in their own image. There, in the familiar, pastoral landscape of my adolescence and young adulthood, - I thought about “sacred landscape,” about the information held in a scar, about relationships of intimacy and inversion, and landscape as the collective body. In my work, the layers of beeswax, looped and stained with pigment, “tattooed” with iconography, clearly reference “skin.” The final surface of my work typically juxtaposes areas of luminosity and translucence with deeply engraved passages, dense with information. As a painting medium, encaustic – ever volatile – collapses the divide between time and space and provides the experience of unsolicited epiphany, apt metaphor for the body itself and for the elusive landscape on which we may stand, fully human. Resume Education BA University of Sussex, England. English and American Literature MA University of London, England, Women’s Studies University of California, Berkeley, Extension, Certificate in Substance Abuse and Family Counseling Exhibitions Solo: 2006 Terrain: The Body as Landscape, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ. 2005 Out of the Ashes, Solo Exhibit at Liz Hernandez Gallery, Tucson, AZ. 2005 Solo 2-year Retrospective and Selection of Recent Work, Central Arizona College 2004 The Rillito Passion (mixed media installation), DCA Gallery, Tucson AZ 2004 The Spanda Suite, 3-Falk Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2004 A Different Perspective, Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM 2003 New Paintings and Recent Work, Phantom Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2003 Between Here and There, Gallery at Hotel Congress, Tucson, AZ 2002 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA. Group and Two Person: 2006 Lucinda Young/Susan Davidoff, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2006 3-in1, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Emerging Women: Visual arts and The New Feminism, Oakland Museum, CA 2006 Regional Invitational Encaustic Show, DCA Gallery Tucson, AZ 2006 In The Square, Southern Contemporary Arts Center, Winchester, Hants, UK 2006 Rising From Instinct, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson AZ 2006 First Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson AZ 2005 SHE OBJECTS!, Conrad Wilde Gallery, curated by Simon Donovan, Tucson AZ 2005 Heart/Felt, Mind/Spirit Gallery, Sausalito, CA 2005 Works on Paper: 5 Contemporary Regional Artists, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2005 New Mexico State Regional Invitational, Las Cruces, NM 2005 Small Works Invitational, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2005 Emerging Contemporary Artists Expo, Liz Hernandez Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2005 The Experimental Monoprint, Group Invitational, UC Berkeley Gallery, CA 2004 Parallel Worlds, Liz Hernandez Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2004 What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 2004 Small Works Invitational, DCA Gallery, Tucson AZ 2004 The 3-Falk Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2004 Spring Invitational, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2004 Ascensio Fine Art and Design, Tucson, AZ Fault Lines, Lodo Gallery, Phoenix, AZ 2004 Visiones de Mujeres / Tucson Women Artists, Raices Teller, Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2004 Sharing Space, Summer Invitational, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA 2004 Wherefore Art Thou? (Artists contemplate Shakespeare) Etherton Gallery at The Temple of Art and Music, Tucson, AZ 2003 Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM 2003 Menlo Fine Arts, Sausalito, CA 2003 Spring Invitational, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2003 Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM Ascensio Fine Art and Design, Tucson, NM 2003 Wash and Ravage (mixed media installation), DCA Gallery, Tucson AZ 2003 Ascensio Fine Art and Design, Tucson, AZ Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM 2003 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA 2003 Narrative and Line, University of Berkeley Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 Sight and Insight, Mill Valley, CA 2002 Mission District Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA 2002 The Arthaus Gallery, Silver City, NM 2002 Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 Sight and Insight Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 2002 The Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA 2002 Spring Invitational, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2002 Southampton University Art Gallery, Southampton, Hants, UK 2002 LGBT Center Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Sight and Insight Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 2001 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA 2001 Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 TransAmerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA. 2001 Marin Arts Council Community Gallery, Corte Madera, CA 2001 Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 Artspace: Marin Community Foundation, San Rafael CA 2000 The Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA. 2000 The City Art Gallery, University of California Extension, San Francisco, CA 1999 The Atrium Gallery, Wells Fargo Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, CA. 1999 Artspace: Marin Community Foundation, Corte Madera, CA 1999 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA 1998 Falkirk Gallery, San Rafael, CA 1998 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA 1998 Bishops Waltham Manor Gallery, Bishops Waltham, Hants, UK 1998 The Women’s Building Gallery, San Francisco, CA Awards, Commissions and Residencies 2005, NMSU Permanent Collection Purchase Award 2003 Arizona Commisssion on the Arts, Professional Development Award 2001 Residency: Anderson Arts Ranch, Snowmass, CO 2001 The Witness Tree, Site Specific Installation for SAFE/Network, CA 2000 Residency: Wild Carrots Artists’ Studios, Inverness, CA 2000 Transforming Communities, installation and performance art project, Marin Community Foundation, CA 2000 Standing/Ground, workshop series and interactive installation, San Francisco, CA 1999 Individual Artist/Community Arts Award, San Rafael, CA 1998 Special Arts Commission Award, 1998 site specific installation for California Department of Public Health Annual Conference on Women and Violence Publications 2006 Tucson Home- Three of a Kind- Mark Mesari November Issue-(Pending) 2006 ARTNEWS- Susan Davidoff and Lucinda Young at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art- October pg.188 2006 Tucson Weekly- Galleries Galore- Margaret Regan October 5-11, pg.37 2005 Tucson Weekly- Forms by Females- Margaret Regan December 22-28, pg.33





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