DVAA Member since 2022
Rosemary Luckett
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About:
Born in Idaho farm community, Rosemary Luckett graduated college with a biology before marrying and rearing three children in Virginia. She studied art there, maintained a teaching studio in Occoquan VA, and taught collage and sculpture at The Art League School, Alexandria VA for 20 years. She now maintains a studio in Wilmington DE where gardening has been added to her artful repertoire. Her latest books pair poems with images shown in her solo shows at Touchstone Gallery, Washington DE and DVAA in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in several states.
Artist Statement:
After many years as a painter and fiber artist, Luckett began using small collages and paintings as springboards to larger works assembled from wood and found objects. These reveal her interest in archetypal portrayals, gender bias issues, and feminine face of the divine icons. In 1997 she began to write poetry about these images.
In the work of the past decade, Luckett fashions a language of images that tell stories about the earthly landscapes we call home. Like Magritte, who paints "the apparent visible and the hidden visible--which, in nature are never separated," her work points to the invisible hiding within the visible landscape. Thinking like a surrealist/biologist/up-cycler, she pairs light bulbs with jawbones, forks with planet Earth, rubber duckies and live ducks, and sextants with tractor shovel loaders, to name a few. By way of these atypical juxtapositions Luckett reveals a reality that goes beyond the natural world as we ordinarily perceive it. The fun for her is trying out unusual combinations of forms and solving the mysteries of the links between them, which often lead to surprising connections made by viewers.
