"I believe everything has a force. I take salvaged materials and repurpose the energy force that already exists. Through my own spirit and ritual practices I reform these disparate materials into my own vision of beauty thus regenerating new force and life."
Acclaimed installation artist Lucy Slivinski has been exhibiting her unique pieces nationally and internationally for the past two decades. Read her full profile, contact her or keep up with Lucy and her work by subscribing to her on the following social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr & YouTube. You may also want to sign up for her occasional email newsletter.
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Natural Rhythm
"Each sculpture seems held together by the disparity and affinity of its elements and by Slivinski’s ability to physically shape apparently intractable materials...the work is smart, tough and handsomely made." - Art in America, 2005
Natural Rhythm is a commissioned sculpture for the City of Saint Cloud, MN. Watch a video about the amazing work—made from salvaged tailpipes and traffic light lens. →
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Lucy has had a one-person exhibition at Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York City, as well as participated in the Novart Festival with Chicago Art is NOW in Bordeaux, France where she created a performance sculpture at the Musee d’art Comtemporaire. She has exhibited several site-specific installations in Chicago's Grant Park, at Art Park in Buffalo, New York, at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia and in Columbus, Indiana.
Her work resides in many private and public collections including; The Longhouse Collection in New York, the City of Chicago, the City of Bolingbrook, Illinois and the City of St. Cloud, Minnesota. She has been interviewed by Channel 7 NEWS, WTTW Channel 11 and she has been featured twice on WBEZ’s 848 show.
"Recycling and reclaiming—underline clearly her conceptual purpose, that is, to acknowledge and affirm the connection between nature and the most outcast objects of human civilization. It is a radically improvisational approach." - Polly Ullrich, Conceptual Materials
ABOUT LUCY SLIVINSKI
Ms. Slivinski holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Northern Illinois University. Most recently, in 2009, she had a one-woman show at Flatfile Galleries in Chicago entitled Inspired Terrain, In the Land of Love there is No Garbage.
