Bio

Lucy de Kooning Villeneuve is 29, from The Springs in East Hampton, and has been painting since childhood. She has a B.A. in Psychology and a M.S. in Education. As a middle school art teacher in a special education setting, connecting and creating with others is vital to her creative process.

She lives in New York City with her cat and canvases.

Artist Statement

I work with elements of Taoism and specifically the Wu Wei, the art of nondoing. Each shape feels intentional yet just out of my grasp, a slippery in-betweenness, something short of being too far or not enough.

In these works, I focused on unfolding my visual language, telling a story of communion. The white and ivory black hold space while soft pastels and neons dance along the walls of their maze. While seemingly similar in ethos, the physical act of painting these shapes is a practice in patience, in immersion, with each reflecting a different instinct of ‘play.’ The colors speak to each other, active yet docile. The lines hold each other, and they all remember to breathe.