Tricia Lazuka

Represented by     Trinity Gallery; Atlanta, Georgia

Selected Exhibitions

2007      Cleveland Art, Burton, OH
            Opus Gallery, All Women Show, Woodmere, OH
            The Fairmount Russell Art Exhibition, Novelty, OH

2006      The Acquisition Exhibition, The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago
            Hoyt Mid Atlantic Juried Art Exhibition, New Castle, PA
            Chagrin Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH
            The Fairmount Russell Art Exhibition, 2nd Place, Novelty, OH
            Gates Mills Juried Art Show, Gates Mills, OH
2005      Chagrin Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH

2001      Gates Mills Juried Art Show, 2nd Place, Gates Mills, OH

1998      Gates Mills Juried Art Show, Gates Mills, OH
            Chagrin Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH
            The Fairmount Russell Art Exhibition, Novelty, OH

Bibliography           

            52 Weeks 52 Works: Calendar. Cleveland, OH: Academy Graphic     Communication,             2007.

Professional Programs

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


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.