Bonnie Lucas

Bonnie Lucas (born 1950) is an artist and educator. She was also a union activist while working as an adjunct art professor at City College, CUNY in New York City.

Lucas is from Syracuse, New York. She attended Wellesley College, majoring in Art History,[1] and earned a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Rutgers University.[2]

Lucas creates art focused on feminine themes: domesticity, identity, and childhood.[3] She dismantles feminine objects and reassembles them to new configurations of art.[4]

Exhibitions

Her first one-person show was at the Kathryn Markel Gallery in NYC in 1979. She had three one-person shows at the Avenue B Gallery in the East Village, NYC in 1985, 1986, and 1987, respectively.[5]

2011: Collages: Esopus Gallery[6]

2014: 40 Year Retrospective: Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Gallery[7]

2017: Young Lady: JTT[8] showing works made between 1983-1987[9] - recognized by Time Out New York as one of the Top Five New York Art Shows[10]

2022: Girl with Purse: RUSCHWOMAN, Chicago, IL

2023: Bonnie Lucas: ILY2, Portland, OR

Personal

Lucas lives in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. She has been in the same rent-stabilized apartment that also doubles as her studio since 1979.[11]

References
  1. Heinrich, Will (2020-07-12). "Bonnie Lucas, Still Playing With Dolls". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  2. "Crafting "Feminine Monsters," Bonnie Lucas Takes on Growing Up as a Girl". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  3. Payne, Amber; producer, N. B. C. (2011-06-14). "After 30 years, a New York artist is reborn". msnbc.com. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  4. "Bonnie Lucas - Artist Biography for Bonnie Lucas". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  5. Nellie (2017-01-24). "Funkytown- Artist Bonnie Lucas Reflects on Life in 1980's New York City". The Urban Memory Project. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  6. "Bonnie Lucas | The Lo-Down : News from the Lower East Side". www.thelodownny.com. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  7. sahmad (2014-03-26). "Artist, Teacher and Activist Bonnie Lucas Gets 40-Year Retrospective". PSC CUNY. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  8. "Bonnie Lucas's 'Young Lady' opening at JTT". Office Magazine. 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  9. ARTnews, The Editors of (2017-02-03). "Bonnie Lucas at JTT, New York". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-07-21. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  10. "Wellesley College". Wellesley College. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  11. "Bonnie Lucas – Living Content". Retrieved 2020-07-21.
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