Tricia Lazuka - Artist Statement

For years, in late evening, I have been walking our dog at a pond near our home. Inherently, life at the pond has much to do with the imagery in my paintings. The pond in its metamorphosis throughout the year, serves as a microcosm for life, linking past and present.

My paintings are as much about drawing as they are about color. I am continually finding lines and forms which express a fleeting state of being. I follow the lead of the line, whether meandering or forthrightly directional. I apply the colors layer upon layer. I allow an image to emerge from the process, shaped by the indefinable: time, visual cues, things overlapped. The result is a serendipitous interplay of color, instinct, line, form and the delicate balance that allows them to be.

Beeswax as a medium allows this shifting across the spectrum. Paint is brushed on when it is molten: it is scraped or scribed when it has cooled. Layers are added, each fused by heat to the one before it. Image and process are interconnected. Much in the same vein, the monotypes are a symbiotic union of paper, paint, and heat; a gracious continuity.

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Exhibitions

Group:

• 2007 The Fairmount Russell Art Exhibition, 2nd Place, Novelty, OH
• 2001 Gates Mills Juried Art Show, 2nd Place, Gates Mills, OH

Professional Experience

• 2007 Santa Fe, NM Encaustic monotype & painting workshop with Paula Roland
  Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
• 2007 First National Encaustic Conference
• 2007 Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH Printmaking Class with Liz Maugan

Publications

• 52 Weeks 52 Works, Calendar