S T A T E M E N T
My work is deeply rooted in a visual awareness of the physical world, but is rarely made directly from life. I use the subject of landscape as a point of departure rather than one of arrival. Each painting begins with inspiration collected from sketches, photographs, sentiments, memories, or emotional experiences. Visual references may be used in the initial stages of the painting process but are eventually set aside to allow the painting to evolve on its own without a mandated conclusion. Paintings may be reminiscent of a specific place; however, through an exaggeration of gesture, and manipulation of color + space, my artwork favors the emotional experience of the painting over visual realism. My paintings are an invitation to explore our tendency as humans to want to name and be certain of anything and everything. We want to know we are right. We want to know we are going to be okay. We want resolutions, absolutes, security. Within all the uncertainty cast upon us is the very nature and beauty of life itself.
B I O
Lindsey Luna Tucker (b. 1990) is an oil painter drawn to the unresolved and impermanent. Her work holds the tension of edges - both emotional and literal - where paintings arrive and dissolve at once, an invitation into what resists being held.
Tucker received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2017 from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia where she studied drawing and painting. She is currently based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Tucker has been awarded artist residencies with Lawayaka Current, Saint Gertrude’s Monastery, Phaeton Gallery, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is represented by Camellia Art Gallery in Hilton Head, South Carolina.