Artists Spotlight: Marne Lucas
Marne Lucas, a photographer and installation artist
Recipient of 2006 Project Grant
Marne Lucas is a photographer and installation artist using nature, pop-culture and sexuality as fundamental themes in her work. Exploring relationship intimately she has collaborated extensively both behind and in front of the camera, celebrating the body. Her most recognized work is portraiture based, exploring intimacy with candor in her artist portraits series and her ongoing self portrait series titled MLSP. For the past fifteen years she had worked in the creative fields of photography, installation, film & video, performance, curation, P.R. and with health and arts related non-profits. She has shown extensively in the Portland area and curated the walls of the Aalto Lounge and V-Gun. A RACC Project Grant recipient, she is also co-founder of the artist collective Blinglab and a Caldera Artist Residency alum.
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Henk Pander, Studio
from Sitting City: Portland Artists
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Her RACC supported solo show, Sitting City: Portland Artist Portraits was an exhibition at Mark Woolley Gallery, December 2006, of portraits of seventeen Portland artists as seen through Lucas lens. Each artist is richly represented by elements that reflect the style of work, mediums and personal inspirations of those individuals. The subjects were shot entirely on location either in nature or in a fantasy projection that is a collaborative mutation of our ideas. These portraits serve as a historic snapshot of the current Portland art scene and gives citizens a chance to see our creative community by one of the simplest means; by putting a face to a name. While I have been working as a portraitist for several years and have photographed artists both here and abroad; the scope of this project was shaped by my grant proposal to RACC to document the thriving Portland creative community.
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Tom Cramer, Mirrors
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Also a sex-worker activist, in 2005 she co-curated the Danzine Retrospective installation with Teresa Dulce, (founding director of the non-profit organization Danzine) as part of At The Mercy Of Others: The Politics of Care organized by the 2004-05 Whitney Museum ISP Fellows. In 2006 she and collaborator Bruce Conkle co-wrote and designed an elaborate puppet show The Untold Misadventures of Lewis & Clark, produced by Blinglab and premiered at the PICA TBA festival.
Lucas' work is part of the
Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition presented by
Newspace Center for Photography (7/3-27, 2008) curated by TJ Norris. Lucas'
self-portrait photograph, at right, is part of the group show.
Currently, Lucas is developing Warlord Sun King, a large scale, collaborative, eco-baroque style installation with artist Bruce Conkle (who received a RACC 2007-08 Project Grant for the installation). Together, they share a similar sense of humor, political, social and eco-based attitudes about the world and making art that is inspired by nature and the beauty of natural materials. This collaborative installation Eco Baroque, which will show at The Art Gym, Marylhurst University in February 2009. Lucas and Bruce Conkle, as a collaborative team, are recent recipients of the PSU Smith Memorial Student Union Public Art + Residency Projects: State of Oregon Percent for Art Program sponsored by the Oregon Arts Commission. Their project will be completed in 2009.
Contact Information:
website: www.marnelucas.com
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RACC Staff to Contact
Mary Bauer
Communications Associate
503.823.5426
mbauer@racc.org
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