Lucia Love's surreal paintings are packed with symbolism referencing politics, gender, history & the dynamics of power.

Lucia Love, Angel at the Wheel, Installation View, 2021, JDJ TriBeCa, New York, NY

Lucia Love
Saint George and The Dragon, 2022
Oil on canvas
72 x 48 in

Lucia Love
Raphael, 2021
Oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches

Lucia Love
Angel at The Wheel, 2022
Oil on canvas
48 x 72 in

Lucia Love
Spancil, 2021
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Like a work of speculative fiction, Love pushes actual events to their most absurd extremes to create their imagined worlds.

Lucia Love
Night and Day, 2021
Oil on canvas
36 x 72 in

Lucia Love
1-800-FLOWERS
Oil on panel
48 x 36 inches

Lucia Love, Firewater, Installation view, JDJ, Garrison, NY, 2020

Lucia Love
Lauren Bacall, 2021
Oil on panel
36 x 24 inches

Lucia Love
People Power, 2021
Oil on panel
40 x 30 inches

Lucia Love, Installation View, NADA House Governor's Island, 2021

Lucia Love
Is This Your Card?, 2020
Oil on panel
40 x 40 inches

Lucia Love
Bubble Vision, 2021
Oil on panel
24 x 30 inches

Lucia Love
Holding Pattern, 2019
Oil on panel
18 × 24 inches
Two Aphrodites depicts the goddess as mythological animals: a carnal she-goat and a languid swan. In her dual forms, the goddess is trapped inside a milk crate, her love and beauty unappreciated in this subterranean space.

Lucia Love
Two Aphrodites, 2017
oil on panel
20 × 30 inches
A figure Love refers to as the Water Carrier recurs in many of their paintings. Her restraints, combined with the water she carries on her head, refer to a combination of situations women have experienced across time and cultures.

Lucia Love
Lady of the Lake, 2020
Oil on panel
24 × 48 inches

Lucia Love
The Look, 2019
oil on panel
24 × 18 inches
The Water Carrier acts as an avatar for Love's interest in feminism and its many forms and becomes a narrative link between the paintings.

Lucia Love
Tall Drink of Water, 2018
oil on panel
24 × 48 inches
Her watery burden is a nod to traditional head-carrying practices as well as the posture-training method at Victorian finishing schools.

Installation view, JDJ, Garrison, 2019
Love's use of the elements earth, air, fire, and water refer to their symbolic definitions as well as the climate crisis. Many of their recent works focus on water, also a symbol of the female body. These works are the focus of their solo exhibition at the gallery in 2020.

Lucia Love
Long Pour, 2020
Oil on panel
20 × 30 inches

Lucia Love
Wacky Inflatable Flailing Firearms, 2020
Oil on panel
40 × 30 inches
Lucia Love attended the School of Visual Arts on a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, where they studied painting and animation.
