mary alison lucas ::
Mary Alison Lucas creates biomorphic ceramic sculptures, rich in texture and color.
Fascinated by entomology, botany, microscopic imagery and most recently nephology, Lucas aims to capture moments of exhaustion and renewal, beauty and grotesque. With the intention to blur the boundaries between structure and surface. Throughout the process she is contorting, pressing, slicing, smashing, prodding and stitching while nurturing, supporting, and soothing the materials. A sculpture punctured with finish nails is initially vulnerable, liquid clay coats and reinforces this metal bond and layers of glazes strengthen the overall structure.
Mary Alison Lucas received her Masters of Fine Art at University of California at Davis after completing her Bachelors of Fine Art at the California College of Arts; a Bay Area artist who recently relocated to Murphys, CA
syn·er·gy noun
the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
sym·bi·o·sis noun
interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.
activities ::
Gash : 14" x 16" x 8" : stoneware, finish nails, casting slip and low fire glazes
The de Young Open
October 10, 2020 - January 31, 2021
In celebration of the de Young museum’s 125th anniversary, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are hosting The de Young Open, a juried community art exhibition of 11,400 submissions by 6,000 artists who live in the nine Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The de Young looks forward to filling the 12,000-square-foot Herbst Exhibition Galleries with 880 artworks by 763 Bay Area artists in The de Young Open.
Silt : 13” x 19: x 9” : Stoneware, casting slip dripped, low fire glazes
ON THE EDGE: CCA CLAY
March 16 – May 15, 2022
Reception: March 17 & April 8, 6-9 PM
Artist Viola Frey (1933- 2004) played a huge role in the Bay Area’s historic ceramic revolution. This exhibition pays tribute to the innovation and experimentation she fostered as head of California College of the Arts’ ceramics studio, and that has thrived at CCA. Sculpture by alumni Peter Voulkos and Robert Arneson, to work by more recent generation of grads such as Woody De Othello, Crystal Morey, Mary Alison Lucas, and Carmen Lang spans 70 years of groundbreaking ceramic education. Work by current faculty such as Chair Nathan Lynch, Arthur Gonzalez, Nancy Selvin, John Toki, and Kari Marboe, among others, exemplifies the diverse range of expression that the ceramic program has maintained during Lynch’s leadership.
This exhibit and catalog are sponsored by Bryan Vansell, Nancy Selvin, Lois Anderson, Marjorie Levy, Rena Bransten, Donna Briskin, Marna Clark, Allan Cohen, John Wyro, Dorothy Saxe, Sally Jackson, William Kopper, Linda S. FitzGibbon, Gretchen Keyworth, Jan Schachter, Margaret Norman, Liza Riddle, Katie Frank, Alan Chin, and Thomas Franco.
Bay Clay
Seven Bay Area sculptors each showing 3 pieces in the studio of Robert Brady. Some of them work in color, some in narrative, some abstract – all with diverse and energetic outcomes. Arthur Gonzalez, Mary Alison Lucas, Stan Welsh, Bill Abright, Claudia Tarantino, Andy Ruble, and Robert Brady.
This show will be open Sunday March 13 – Saturday March 19th.
Gash is accepted into the de Young Open!
https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/de-young-open
In celebration of the de Young museum’s 125th anniversary, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are hosting The de Young Open, a juried community art exhibition of 11,400 submissions by 6,000 artists who live in the nine Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The de Young looks forward to filling the 12,000-square-foot Herbst Exhibition Galleries with 880 artworks by 763 Bay Area artists in The de Young Open.
Wild Ways at Trax Gallery: Bean Finneran, Mike Helke and Mary Alison Lucas: Gallery Opening from 5 to 7 pm on September 8th, a Friday.
Patricia Sweetow Gallery: Exhibition Dates: July 13 – August 19, 2017.
Intimate Abstractions: Ceramic Invitational curated by California College of the Arts Professor Nancy Selvin.
Andrew Casto – Mary Alison Lucas – Nathan Lynch – Kari Marboe – Jonathan Mess
Reception: Saturday, July 15, 2 – 5 pm
Skittle is heading to the California State Fair perhaps to take home a blue ribbon? June 10 - July 26th Sacramento
After taking home a bright orange ribbon, Skittle now lives with San Francisco artist Ellen Little
Trax Gallery : Local Clay Heavies:
Opening October 18: 5-7 pm
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ArtsBenicia : Unbreakable:
October 16-November 16, 2014
Selections from the CCA Ceramic Alumni of the New Millennium
ceramic work by Mary Alison Lucas
Curated by Arthur Gonzales and Mark Eanes
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BAUM GALLERY
Conway, Arkansas
August 20 - October 25, 2012
Hey Baum fans! I hope you are as excited as I am for the first show of our season- So Tiny: An Exhibition of Small Works in 3-D. This show will be sure to captivate visitors with the miniature scale and the detail contained in each of the works of art. I’m personally looking forward to artist Mary Alison Lucas’ ceramic piece Curd being displayed. Oakland, California based Lucas uses various techniques and materials to distort her material till it is almost unrecognizable. Her techniques utilizing nails and multiple glazes produce a strange alien-like art that seems to be from another world all together.
October 11 – November 18, 2012
In celebration of their 25th Anniversary, Arts Benicia is presenting AB25 / Collective Memories. Curators Hedi Desuyo, Mark Eanes, and Erika Von Zoog combed through extensive archives to create a timeline retrospective representing 44 of the most memorable exhibits that have graced the walls at Arts Benicia over this last quarter century.
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Mind Over Matter
October 13 - November 5: 2011 511 West 22nd Street New York, New York
“Curated by Annabeth Rosen
Meulensteen is proud to announce Mind Over Matter, a group show of contemporary ceramics
curated by Annabeth Rosen, including work by John Chwekun, Benjamin DeMott, Julia Haft-
Candell, Mary Alison Lucas, Jim Melchert, Joyce Robins, Jim Shrosbree, and Lisa Wolkow. The
exhibition takes as its point of departure the work and legacy of Richard Devore, whose black
vessels will be exhibited concurrently in the gallery’s main space.
Rosen explains:
Richard Devore was a conceptual sensualist. He paid attention to the esoteric and the elusive
impulses that inform both learned and intuitive knowledge. He constructed form in an in-depth,
deliberately sensitized, nuanced exploration, over and over again, until the work was no longer what it
was perceived to be; it became form as the armature for idea. Like saying a word over and over, its
meaning is subsumed as other sensibilities take over. Even though his works carry the vessel icon,
they are other; they are made from the inside out physically and conceptually, like something formed
or found in nature.
The work in Mind Over Matter explores the medium of ceramics as something other than form. The
sculptures, with little matter and less form, reflect eccentric geometries and capture the unexpected
and sometimes unpremeditated work that comes from exploring matter, following the natural order of
an idiosyncratic logic. This exhibition and the concurrent exhibition of Richard DeVore’s work at
Meulensteen act as foils for each other, coming from opposite directions, aiming for intimacy, and
both exploiting and transcending material.”
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Brea Art Gallery
January 22 - March 4, 2011
The juror, Jo Lauria, is a nationally recognized curator, historian and author specializing in contemporary crafts and decorative arts.
