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June Issue 2004
Piazza Gallery Art & Framing in Mt. Pleasant, SC, Features Works by Susan Lucas
Piazza Gallery Art & Framing in Mt. Pleasant,
SC, will present the exhibit, Susan Lucas Photos, which will be
on view during the month of June, 2004. The exhibit will feature
the original photographs of Lucas, a Mount Pleasant resident.
"The thing that moved me furthest along in my photography
is that I take really emotional pictures, and I love faces,"
says Lucas. "And they're never contrived; the subject is
only marginally aware of the camera. I just sort of wait out the
moment."
Lucas' path to successful portrait and fine art photography has
followed a serendipitous route. Growing up in Kansas City, her
education was in the arts, and after college she found herself
working in corporate American for 15 years, but became seriously
burned out. At that point, she returned to her love of visual
art, and in 1989, started a small graphic design firm and was
making photographs to fill the pages she designed. Then, after
locating her company to Boston, she recalls, 'I was taking uninspired
pictures of CEOs, the company's new fleet of trucks, corporate
events, but I wanted more feeling in my photography."
Lucas enrolled in photography courses at the University of Massachusetts.
By the end of her first semester, she had installed a darkroom
in her home. It was about that time a close friend had a baby,
and Susan seized the opportunity to make images as a gift. "When
I saw those black and white prints come to life in the developer
tray, I had a moment," she recalls. "I said, 'This is
what I want to do.'"
Lucas began to make portraits for friends, and by word of mouth,
her reputation grew. Wanting to be closer to New York, she packed
up her portrait business and moved to Long Island. Soon she found
herself commissioned to travel the country, serving a growing
demand for her sensitive, stylistic portraits. Her recent move
to the South was thoughtfully selected. "Charleston is my
adopted home," she said definitively. "I want roots
here. It's beautiful, cosmopolitan, culturally rich and the market
is wonderful. There are nice people from all over the country;
many are quite accomplished and want to invest in fine art."
The move also promted her to expand her moody, photojournalistic
portraiture into fine art projects, retail and books. She now
has a line of greeting cards, calendars and other items, depicting
such subjects as children, dogs, horses and flowers. "I want
to be known for the faces," says Lucas.
For further info check our SC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 843/971-5005 or e-mail Sterling Bolling, Jr.,
at (SJBOLLING@aol.com).
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