LUCINDA WILNER

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Lucinda Wilner’s work is about a wide variety of subjects, nature particularly birds, cities, people, politicians, every day objects like furniture, text, and the environments we create – our stories, memories, problems. The artist engages the viewer in open-ended universal narratives, from existential loneliness to our history of colonization and development. The visual language the artist uses is observational, uninflected. It draws on scientific presentation and infographics as a counterpoint to intensely emotional subject matter.

Bio:

Lucy Wilner has always been an artist. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows throughout the U.S. and collected by both private individuals and institutions, including the Seattle Art Museum. Her most recent solo show “Us and Them,” focusing on birds in relation to human artifacts and environments, was presented by the New York City Parks Department at Conference House Park on Staten Island.

Wilner holds BFA and MFA degrees from The University of Chicago and the University of Washington. She taught painting at Louisiana State University and wrote art criticism for Reflex magazine in Seattle. After moving to New York, she worked as a book designer for Sterling Publishing.

Today, Wilner has her studio and her residence in Brooklyn, NY. She participates in several professional artist groups and is on the board of the New York Artists Circle. She paints full time, in the characteristic style of neo-surrealism.