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Kija Lucas
Smolder 81, 2016/2019
Estimated Value: $1,500
Archival pigment print
24 x 20 inches
Framed
Edition 2/5
Signed, on label
Donated by the artist.
Smolder focuses on the charred aftermath of wildfires. It is a meditation on our relationship with nature, our desire to control it, and our fear of allowing it to remain natural.
About the Artist:
Kija Lucas
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.
Website: kijalucas.com
Facebook: /kijalucas
Instagram: @kijalucas
Venmo: @Kija-Lucas
Artist Talk with Kija Lucas
The Taxonomy Of Belonging
Artist Talk - Kija Lucas
The Taxonomy Of Belonging
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
6:00 - 7:00 PM PDT
On Tuesday, September 1st, SF Camerawork hosted 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.
