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Lucia Vera (Venezuela, 1986) Lucia Vera’s work has been exhibited in group shows including East London Painting Prize at Bowarts, London, Connecting Worlds at The Drawing Room, London, and Things you don't do / Things you do do at Bath School of Art Gallery, Bath, all in 2014. Previously, Lucia has participated in exhibitions at London’s Vigo Gallery and Flowers Gallery, at New York’s Brucennial, One Art Space Gallery and Cooper Union Gallery. Her solo exhibitions include Amorbo at Cooper Union Gallery in New York (2010) and Saboreo y Zapateo at Goya18 Gallery in Barcelona (2009). Lucia graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology, both located in New York.

Lucia's work toys between the illusion and materiality of paint, which relates to the paradox of their subjects. Even when the picture is not of a figure, her subject is the figurative genre and painting itself. Her paintings usually both vulgar and appealing, comment humorously on the portrayal of women. As one, Lucia is interested in overtly appropriating and mocking the language that objectifies women throughout history, releasing the tensions surrounding the subject.

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