Shannon Cartier Lucy

Shannon Cartier Lucy was born in 1977, in Nashville, Tennessee, where she currently lives and works. With a career of endless experimentation spanning over twenty years, Shannon Cartier Lucy is one of the most celebrated figurative painters working today. Raised in an unconventional context with a schizophrenic father, Cartier Lucy paints seemingly ordinary and familiar scenes in a realistic style that also appear alienating for their surreal details, poses and composition. Through her paintings, Shannon Cartier Lucy explores the concept of body and expresses the clear and melancholic domestic reality and its feeling of solitude and nostalgia; the bodies are faceless and their actions are set in situations violent and intriguing at the same time. What appears familiar transforms to become the lead to another level of narrative, suggesting confusion of information. Cartier Lucy infuses her painting with uncanny and impossible situations that become a new normality in her work. The artist is a cantor of the inner world; her practice can be seen as a mirror of a dystopic society, whether intentional or accidental, reflecting a sociocultural landscape filled with hallucinatory and contradictory information.