Artist Talk with Kija Lucas

The Taxonomy Of Belonging

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
6:00 - 7:00 PM PDT

On Tuesday, September 1st, SF Camerawork was pleased to present an artist talk with Bay Area based photographer Kija Lucas.  Kija Lucas photographs objects as both a methodology and a subject for self-exploration, communal reflection, and catharsis. She examines the ideological and emotional inheritances passed down through generations, often remaining unexamined. Her images are self-consciously detached, using the unsentimental visual language of science to create portraits of objects that have been chosen specifically for their unique and intimate emotional significance.

Kija Lucas is an artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage and inheritance. She is interested in how ideas are passed down and seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations. Lucas has shown her work throughout the Bay Area and nationally. Including MoAD, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, and Headlands Center for the Arts. She is a member of Three Point Nine Art Collective and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure. Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Mills College.

Kija Lucas, Image from the series In Search of Home

Kija Lucas, Image from the series In Search of Home


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