Kija Lucas
Smolder 236, 2018/2020

Archival pigment print, 20 x 27 inches
Edition 1/5, signed, on label
Framed
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated value: $2,000

This body of work 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 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.

Her work has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California; Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, Mission Cultural Center, San Francico Arts Commission Galleries, California Institute of Integral Studies, and Root Division, San Francisco; Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County; and Palo Alto Arts Center; as well as Venice Arts in Los Angeles, CA; La Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall in Bologna, Italy; and Casa Escorsa in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Lucas has been an artist-in-residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA; Grin City Collective, Grinnell, IA; and The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY. She is a member of 3.9 Art Collective and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure in San Francisco. Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Mills College.

Website: kijalucas.com
Instagram: @kijalucas
Venmo: @kija-lucas