Throughout her career, Dede Lucia has close spiritual ties to nature and views ‘Natureculture’ as the primordial touchstone which all systems of birth, growth, change and death fulfill an existential call to both resistance and acceptance of life’s audacious purpose. Within these terms as a contemporary landscape painter, her paintings interrogate the suffering, ambiguity and awe of what it means to be human within a natural world, framed within the motif of Paradise Lost and Paradise Found.

 

Large, human-scaled paintings confront viewers with flora and fauna, layered within a juxtaposition of contrasting visual elements and deep saturation of color which has a dreamlike or otherworldly quality, sometimes called “magical realism”. Dede Lucia’s painting style is described as a memetic hybrid which mixed both representational and abstract elements. For her, abstraction serves as a visual reminder of the things in life one cannot know, recognize or name. The paintings are contextualized through traditional painting languages which utilizes symbolism, metaphor and allegory to provoke a deeper assessment of associated objects, flora and fauna. These paintings pivot between real and unreal spaces, and built and natural environments. Referenced geography and locality in her paintings are specific to place and experience; however, the imagery is brought together through a kind of digital collage which both conceals and reveals a deeper narrative to reflect an experience rather than a single event.

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