Beneath the Surface, Still Singing

Mixed Media

12"x12" unframed

2025

ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a Bronx raised Puerto Rican Mixed Media Artist based in Pennsylvania.

What keeps you going? I asked a group of "Abuelitas". There stories stir up emotions in me that remind me why I create art.

I create art because it allows me to express visually what is in my mind, my heart, what I observe in people, their stories, the world around me, from travels, and especially the significance of my Puerto Rican identity in the diaspora.

For instance, in language, the "Taino Emergence" painting of my Puerto Rican Princes series, is an expression of embracing my identity with Taino indigenous language, a legacy I reminisce from my grandmother. She used Taino words like "batey" and "ditas" and "jicotea".

I reflect on importance of relationships within groups and community and explore human interaction, connection, cultural identity and being Puerto Rican and American, symbols of the island.

In my process for sculptures, I generally start something I witnessed, like the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the effects I witnessed in Nicaraguan youth from the civil uprising, an image I saw of a homeless man with his head down, or a worship activity so expressive in body movement.

I also use environmentally friendly medium and organic material as in the piece, "Buscando Agua Después de Maria" with egg cartons Flamboyán Tree flower and depict what many Puerto Ricans had to do after Hurricane María: fetch water in streams which I could relate to since I had to go through similar experience in childhood when I migrated back to Puerto Rico.

Whether sculpture or paintings, I strive to deliver a poignant reflect on human resiliency, continuously exploring and reflecting on the human experience and our grit to keep going, on what makes us drive forward, hope, faith, love.

Lucy studied Studio Art in City University of New York, obtained a B.S. in Applied Behavioral Science from Penn State Harrisburg. She worked as an Art Instructor in the Bronx, New York City. Her Journey has taken her in Logistics Management and Mixed Media Art Sculpture and Paintings.

She has been featured in The Burg, her award-winning sculptures and other paintings have been featured in PA Latino Hispanic Conventions, Capitol Rotunda, Pennsylvania State Library, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, and area Exhibitions.

Lucy made the Harrisburg/York area her home where she and her husband David, raised their four children who also dabble in the Visual Arts.

Lucy is looking forward to showing her work in her native land of Puerto Rico.

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