Lucinda Bliss

Lucinda Bliss, Untitled (Cardinal and Bunny), 2010,graphite pencil and watercolor on paper

Lucinda Bliss, Bird Stack, 2010, graphite pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper

Lucinda Bliss, Untitled (Deer and Beads) I, 2009, graphite pencil, watercolor, and gouache on paper

Lucinda Bliss, Bandaged IV, 2009, graphite pencil, watercolor, and gouache on paper

Lucinda Bliss, Exodus I, 11” x 8”, 35 mm prints on Ektacolor Standard Glossy paper, 2008

Lucinda Bliss, Scarlet Letter: Love, Graphite pencil, ink, watercolor, and gouache, 2008

Lucinda Bliss, Love, Hunger, Vengeance, Truth, 23” x 23”, watercolor, gouache, and graphite pencil, 2008

Lucinda Bliss, Scarlet Letter, Graphite pencil, ink, watercolor, and gouache, 2008

Lucinda Bliss, Lessons in English, (installation view), mixed media & altered books, 2008

CURRENT ARTIST STATEMENT 2010

Immersed in a recent body of work exploring ecological content, I began to conjure injured animals in my sleep. In one of these dreams I was visiting a hospital in which my mother was working as poet-in-residence. Scanning the overflowing waiting room, I began to notice animals waiting alongside humans. Amazed, I looked down at a nearby table to see several kitten-sized, bandaged deer. I was told that the hospital had developed technology for miniaturizing animals, making more space in the waiting room until the animals could be treated. This dream provided a visual starting place for this series of drawings in which I'm interested in reconsidering monumental, wondering whether it might be applied to delicate, representational work and asking how a playful, even beautiful, visual language can speak to grave ecological (and other) matters.

EDUCATION
1997-1999 Vermont College, Montpelier, VT, M.F.A. in Visual Art
1983-1988 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, B.A. in Art History

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010
Drawing Itself: A Survey of Contemporary Practice, The Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT, group show

2009
Sentinetls, University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tuscon, AZ, solo show
University of New England, Westbrook, ME, group show
Wonderland, Whitney Art Works

2008
Exposing Scarlet, The Ross Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, North Carolina

2007
Tiny, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine
Intelligent Design, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine
Body Parts, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine

2006
The Ostrich Diaries and Other Stories, SPACE gallery, Portland, Maine
Filling in the Hole, The Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, Maine

2004
Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to The Scarlet Letter, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
solo show, Patricia Carega Gallery, Sandwich, New Hampshire
Benaddiction 2004, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, New York
Invitational featuring 17 new drawings, The Hay Gallery, Portland, Maine
What's Love Got to Do With It, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

2003
Art as Activism, The Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, Massachusetts
10th Biennial National Juried Exhibition, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Shelter, College of the Atlantic Blum Gallery, Bar Harbor, Maine
Critical Selections.1, Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, New York

2001
The Culture of Nature: Artists Explore the Environment, The Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, Maine
The Greater Portland Regional, Danforth Gallery, Portland, Maine

2000
Works on Paper, Hazmat/Moca, Tucson, Arizona
Death Penalty Show, Flynn Dog Gallery, Burlington, Vermont
On the Horizon, The University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
Anatomy of Desire:the Daughter/MotherSessions, The University of Arizona, Arizona Ballroom Gallery, Tucson
On the Horizon, The College of the Atlantic, Blum Gallery, Bar Harbor, Maine

1999Anatomy of Desire: an Alphabet of Identity, The Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont

1997Family Affair, Pfizer, New London, Connecticut

1996The Figure, South of North Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1995Unknown Chicago,Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois

1993
Las Seis, Zitlala, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Voyeur, Rod Goebel Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

1992
Collaborations, Firestone Art Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico
New Work, New Mexico, Copeland-Rutherford, Santa Fe, New Mexico

CURATOR
2004Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to the Scarlet Letter, Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2001
The Culture of Nature: Artists Explore the Environment, The Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, Maine
Aesthetic Diversity, The Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, Maine

LECTURES
2007Claiming the Legacy of Feminism, Vermont College

2006
Unbound Text: An Introduction to My Work, Vermont College
Muse Dialogues, Guest lecture for Muse, Portland, Maine
Sunday Art Salon, The Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, Maine

2002
Unbound Text, College of Art, Portland, ME

PUBLICATIONS
2000Anatomy of Desire: the Daughter/Mother Sessions, Tucson, Arizona: Kore Press

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Interview with Lucinda Bliss and poet/essayist Alison H. Deming, by Jennie Ziegler
What's Springing Up in Maine, Mainetoday.com

2008
No Man is an Island, by Ian Paige, The Portland Phoenix, October 22.

2007
Economies Large and Small: The Artist Studio, by Lauren Fensterstock, Arts Guide, Portland , 2007-2008.
Coffee Lids by Design: Four Artists Explore Intelligent Design, by Ian Paige, The Portland Phoenix, Portland, Maine
Creative Habitats, by Jeremy Frey, The Portland Phoenix, Portland, Maine

2005
Heady Rubbish, by Lynn Deming (Providence, RI: The Providence Athenaeum, 2005)
Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts and Letters, four images of drawings from the exhibit Exposing Scarlet
The Saint Ann’s Review, a Journal of Contemporary Arts and Letters, cover image and two other reproductions in 25th anniversary issue
Tempted by a Dream: Luminous Shadows Cast by ‘The Scarlet Letter, Susan Boulanger, Art New England

2004
The Saint Ann's Review, a Journal of Contemporary Arts and Letters, full page reproductions of 4 mixed media drawings
Red-letter days at the BCA reveal society’s secrets, Cate McQuaid, Boston Sunday Globe
Rikki Don’t Lose that Number, Randi Hopkins, The Boston Phoenix
Gotta Have Art, Thomas Garvey, Bay Windows – Fall Preview
Damariscotta art gallery, sculpture garden opens new exhibit, Lincoln County News, (reproduction of ink drawing)
Art in March, Further Reflections on Beauty, by Laurie Meunier Graves, Wolf Moon Press: A Maine Magazine of Art and Opinion

2002Bliss' Bear is Biological, The Waldo Independent

2001
The Death Penalty Show, Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, VT, Review Art New England
Mortality felt while looking at the ocean felt by Bath artist, The Times Record, Volume 35 Number 18

2000
Body Work, Tucson Weekly, vol.16, #50, Feb. 17, p. 21
Anatomy of Desire explores physical, intellectual desires, Arizona Daily Wildcat, vol. 93, #100, Feb. 17, p.11
Deconstructing Desire: Lucinda Bliss and Alison Deming confront the dichotomy of mother as lover,Tucson Weekly, vol. 16, #52, Mar. 2, p.41
The Saint Ann's Review, a Journal of Contemporary Arts and Letters,(full page reproductions of two pieces)
The Culture of Nature: Artists Explore the Environment
, Orion Online www.oriononline.org

AWARDS
2005Good idea grant, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, ME
2004Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
2002-2005The Drawing Center, New York, New York
2002Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1998G. Roy Levin-Jessica Lutz Merit Prize, Vermont College

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