Laverne, 2013

Gouache and charcoal on Fabriano paper

34.5 x 26 x 2 in.

Women's narratives, within the context of society and culture, is an underlying theme in Lundy's work. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1974, to an Italian immigrant mother and an American father, Monica Lundy went on to spend her formative years as a child in Saudi Arabia, where her awareness of sexual discrimination and oppression was experienced first hand. Lundy's mixed media paintings focus on narratives of women from all walks of life, employing a wide range of painting materials and techniques ranging from traditional methods to experimental and ephemeral ones. Painting methods and mediums she has used include: ephemeral terra-cotta clay installations, liquid porcelain mixed with pigment on panel, coffee, burned paper, pulverized charcoal, mica flake, gouache, acrylic and oil paints.

With a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1996) and an MFA from Mills College (2010), Lundy's site-specific installations have been featured in historic locations including Alcatraz Island, Fort Point, Montalvo Arts Center, The American Academy in Rome and Santa Maria della Pieta; a decommissioned psychiatric hospital in Rome. Among other accolades, she has been the recipient of the Jay DeFeo Prize, an Irvine Fellowship, a SFAC grant and was a Visiting Artist and Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. Her work has been reviewed in Vanity Fair Italy, ARTNews, KQED, Huffington Post and Visual Art Source among other publications. In 2022 the monograph, Monica Lundy, was published by Silvana Editoriale in Milan, Italy. Lundy currently lives and works in both Los Angeles and Rome.

Courtesy of Nancy Toomey Fine Art and the Artist