Gina Lucia

Gina Lucia is an art director, artist, designer, and educator.

Biography

Lucia earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Arts from Montclair State University and a graduate degree in Communication Design from Pratt Institute. She is a freelance art director, Has taught Graphic Design I and II at Montclair State University, and at NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. She has been published in the U.S., Brazil and Barcelona, Spain and has exhibited her work in such galleries as the PPOW Gallery in New York City, Broadway Gallery in New York City and LITM Gallery in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her work was published in 2008 by Rockport Publishers in a book entitled "1,000 Music Graphics." Gina is a member of the northern New Jersey artist collective LaOla. [1] She has received numerous awards and accolades from Graphic Design USA, The Art Director's Club of New Jersey and NJIABC. In 2010 she was a contributing artist to the “Global Inheritance Recycling Project” at the Coachella Art and Music Festival in Indio, CA and exhibited her art in the Trashed group art exhibit at the POVevolving Gallery in Los Angeles CA.

Lucia was awarded a scholarship for graduate studies at Pratt Institute in 2010.

Artistic style

Lucia's mixed media collage work fuses commercial and fine art. Hand drawn sketches are combined with found objects, photography, hand-rendered typography and presented in a thought-provoking photomontage. Inspired by music, Surrealism and the Freudian concept of free association, personal experiences and heartbreak, everyday encounters with objects people and places, the current social and political climate, her montages are spontaneous juxtapositions of unlikely things. She incorporates elements of pop culture; viscera, music that rocks; fashion; graffiti; low brow art; hot rod, skate, street and snowboard culture; and eclectic ephemera into her work and brings it all together in an urban-organic style. The harmonious commingling of both digital technology and fine art techniques has allowed her to redefine and refine her art.

Publications

NY Arts Magazine, New York, NY 2011

p. 146, Basic Identity,Index Book 2010, Barcelona, Spain

p. 142 Graphic Design USA American Graphic Design Award and Publication in 2010 Design Annual, 2010

p. 0448, 0449 pp. 124, Rockport Publishers/1,000 Music Graphics, 2008

p. 12, The Black Book/RAW, 2008 www.zupi.com.br, Zupi, http://www.zupi.com.br/publique/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?infoid=1912&sid=13&tpl=view_cap_full.htm&from_info_index=301 Zupi Revista, Brazil 2006

pp. 80 & 98, Graphic Design USA/2005 Inhouse Design Awards, 2005