Lucy Wilner, submitted artwork
Lucy Wilner
Painting
Brooklyn, NY
Lucy Wilner is a lifelong artist whose work has been shown in group and solo shows nationwide 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 has had a varied career in the arts. She taught painting at Louisiana State University and wrote art criticism for Reflex magazine in Seattle. After moving to New York, she worked in publishing as a book designer for Sterling Publishing. Today, Wilner has her studio and her residence in Brooklyn. 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 that is her unique creation.
Works
Lucy Wilner, submitted artwork
Birds in these paintings are at the center of a constructed world of human artifacts and environments. It is a model space, a virtual universe. I see birds literally, as members of a certain species, and also metaphorically, as representing all creatures, including ourselves. Birds are our cousins — more similar to us than different — and we share with them the trajectory of our journey through the cosmos. My work responds to the crises of our time, using a coded and analytic language, but ultimately seeking an emotional response of empathetic identification.
