portrait of a red fox facing forward in sitting up position, concealed amongst red foliage and flowers (Leopard Lillies?) “Sourcing imagery from the flora and fauna of the California coast, Julia Lucey combines printmaking and collage for a medium all her own. Lucey prints her exquisitely detailed aquatint etchings in multiple editions, and uses a deft hand to cut and layer them into complex large-scale collages. The finished pieces are visually dense constructed environments that play on the character of her animal and vegetable subjects. As the artist herself explained, in some of her worlds, she references narratives and folk tales she imagines could happen, but with local animals as the characters. In other collages, she sets the animal’s gaze out toward the viewer in judgement; and others are simply about the magical feeling of being in a wild space.”
Julia Lucey (CA, USA)
Red #Fox, 2021
Aquatint etchings and acrylic
24 × 18 in | 61 × 45.7 cm
www.artsy.net/artwork/juli...
www.julialucey.com
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