.....Presenting an exhibit entitled Perspectival

May 26 - July 29, 2009

Gorecki Gallery, CSB

Artist Reception: June 27, 3:00-5:00 PM

Artist Statement:

"The first memory I have of myself as an artist dates back to when I was three years old.  The night before I had been to an amusement park and, even from the ground, the Ferris Wheel lit up at night overawed me.  The next day, I noted with amazement that the creases on the palm of my hand reflected the spokes and the curves of the Ferris Wheel.  Using a blue pen, I traced the Ferris Wheel on my hand, adding lights and people, so that my hand pulsed with the vibrancy I'd seen at the amusement park.  With pride and excitement at my artistic achievement I ran to show my mother... who made me wash my hand."

"Everything that was compelling to me about seeing and drawing the Ferris Wheel is still present in my art and the act of making it: the allure of darkness and color; tension and movement; a sense of wonder, play, and danger.  Only now, nobody makes me wash my hands."

Biography:

Lucinda Naylor earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.  She has taught full-time at the university level and continues to teach regularly through the continuing studies program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.  Naylor has been Artist in Residense at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis since 1996.  Other residencies of note include being "Liturgical Artist in Residence" at the College of St. Catherine in 2005 and "Artist in Dig" at a Neolithic archaeological site near Kilmartin, Scotland in 2006.  Churches, colleges, conferences, and publishers around the country have commissioned art from Naylor and/or used her as a consultant.  Her art has been shown in many venues.  Naylor works both figuratively and abstractly in a variety of media.  Her liturgical artwork includes drawings, paintings, prints, labrynths, processionial banners, and large-scale installations.  Her personal artwork has focused on bronze and stone sculpture; egg tempera paintings; and abstract mixed media drawings.  Prominent themes found in her work are musing on biblical stories, legends of saints, history, and myth.