Opening Reception: Lucy Maki: Eccentric Geometries

Lucy Maki: Eccentric Geometries
opening reception: March 8, 5-8 pm
on view: March 8–April 6, 2024

Biography
Lucy Maki lives and works in Albuquerque,NM. She has exhibited throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Her paintings are in the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe. The Albuquerque museum, and the UNM Fine Art Museum. Simultaneously with her show at Exhibit/208 she will have work in the 2024 Arts Thrive show at the Albuquerque museum. In 2022 she participated in Southwest Contemporary’s 12 New Mexico Artists to Know at Pie Projects in Santa Fe. She has appeared in numerous publications in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. For many years she showed with Linda Durham in Santa Fe after earning her MFA with distinction from UNM.

Artist Statement
Eccentric Geometries continues the exploration of the shaped canvas as a painting object. It takes the idea of a rectangular stretcher and extends the “stretcher bars” outside the picture plane, allowing the painting or construction to “grow” into the space. Architectural thought organizes the inside/outside pictorial space, while gestures of modernist painting and design define the surface. Material and process also factor in and are essential to the schematics of the painting.

By noticing interactions between shape, color, line, brushstroke, texture, a natural order of logic emerges that makes the painting’s structure cohere. Abstraction is used as a reflection of the way one thinks, with geometric imagery conveying a personal and felt exploration of the process of illusion and perception. Intensions are provisional; their futility anticipated. In a dialogue between painter and painting, through a call and response process, only then is the next step revealed. Something is made out of an apparent nothing. Titles become pointers, winding around that which never becomes any particular thing but itself-an unique eccentric presence.