Artwork by Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper
November 14, 2011 - January 28, 2012
Layers of reality are revealed in the paintings of Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper, whose art is inspired by her practice of yoga. Her narrative style of layered imagery explores the boundaries of the body, mind, breath and emotions as well as the multi-dimensional universe. Her childhood quest for life’s meaning continues to haunt her adult years and the result in oil, watercolor and acrylic paintings that span continents and cultures. A retrospective of her work is currently on view at the MATV Gallery through January 30.
Lucilda’s journeys on the Indian subcontinent for three years reverberates in paint, recording and recoding her experiences from hatha yoga postures to peacock feathers. Issues of gender and identity she transmutes alchemically with her brush, examples being the “Veiled Presence” series that has received international recognition as the U.S. entry to India’s Triennale. Lucilda lovingly paints the people, landscape and seascape of the Caribbean, especially her native Jamaica, where she maintains a studio that she designed and had built. The colors of her childhood under the Caribbean sun give her work a luminosity described as “jewel-toned” by the Associated Press. In Egypt Lucilda began to contemplate the purpose of art from a historical perspective, combining ancient Pharonic images with street scenes of contemporary Cairo in a series of oil paintings on canvas that she titles “Myth, Magic and Metaphor.”
A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art And Design, Lucilda lives in Boston and teaches adults and children painting and drawing at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts. She was Boston’s First Night Artist in 2007 where the buttons for admission to the Citywide New Year’s Eve event was based on her painting “Cosmic Dancer.”
The MATV Gallery is located at Malden Access Television, 145 Pleasant St. in Malden Square. Exhibit hours are Monday – Thursday, 10am – 9pm; Friday, 10am – 6pm; and Saturday, 10am – 2pm. The facility is handicapped accessible.
We invite you to join us for the artist's reception on Saturday, December 10, 12noon - 4pm. The reception will feature a holiday boutique, with handmade items for sale by Lucilda and other Boston area artists.
Gallery Spotlight
Click on the image below to play a video featuring Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper talking about her artwork.
