I have gone by many names & lived in quite a few places. For now, I create art & write under my 'GypsyLuc' pseudonym & call Bucyrus my home. Even though we don't share any physical DNA, YelloWall Collective is my artistic family.I have been creating since childhood. I can't help it. The ideas & concepts come keep brewing up within me. I try my best to corral & execute as many of the 'good' ones as I can.
It was once suggested to me by a gallery owner in Columbus that I zero in on a single medium to define my style & persona in order to make my art more 'marketable'. It may be partially the rebellion in me, but I just can not do that. Ultimately, I create because I have to. If I never sold another piece I would keep on creating, creating, creating...
I love to explore different media - the less 'traditional' the better. I prefer to shop for art fodder at thrift stores, yard sales & home improvement stores over arts supply chains. Each idea I dream up seems to carry with it the specific physical products it needs to be expressed with. Some of those media have been: acrylic, aluminum foil, bird cages, books, boxes, a CB, ceramic tile, chains, collage, faux fur, fabric, glass bottles, joint compound, Monopoly pieces, old clocks, Scrabble tiles, shadowboxes, spraypaint, telescopic antennae, trinkets, wire, wood, yarn. I currently want to explore the use of sheets of paper ash...
The motifs, tools, elements & processes that seem to reappear in my artworks again & again include: texture, tentacles, arches, symmetry, stencils, faux fur, spraypaint, repetition, birds, hybrid creatures, exacto blades, drybrushing, non-tradtional framing, assemblage, 3-D wallhung pieces...
Some artists that inspire me are - first & foremost - my YelloWall cohorts. After these beautiful people come Joseph Cornell, Leslie Bohnenkamp, Richard Roth, Doris Salcedo & the Fluxxus Movement artists.I see my role in YelloWall as that of firelighter. If I can use my gifts of organizing & leadership in the midst of all the creative madness, then I'm there. Just the other day my imagination was trying to decide which chess piece would represent each member of the collective. I can't decide if I'd be a knight or a bishop...
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