About

BIO:

Lucroy earned a BA in Fine Arts Studio with a minor in Art History, Phi Beta Kappa, from Indiana University Bloomington and an MFA in Art and Technology with a focus on digital lighting from The Ohio State University. Following grad school, she worked in the film industry at Pixar Animation Studios as a Lighting Artist on A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2, Directing Lighting Artist on Monsters Inc., and Director of Photography on the Academy-Award winning film The Incredibles. Though working in computer animation was a long-held dream she was thrilled to actualize, she always knew at some point she would want to return to her personal art practice. After close to a decade at Pixar, she went back to the intimacy and immediacy of creating her own work, where she interweaves digital and analog processes, including drawing, painting, collage, scanography, photography, computer programming, 3D graphics and digital painting/compositing/effects. Lucroy has been an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute, as well as an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including a solo exhibition with Shoebox Projects in Los Angeles, CA, as well as group exhibitions at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, the Santa Paula Art Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Northern California Art, and the Bristol Art Museum. Lucroy lives with her husband and cat in the San Francisco Bay Area.

STATEMENT:

Organic forms immersed in indeterminate space populate my work. The content is inspired by natural structures and processes, yet is abstracted and dereferenced in a manner that evades direct identification. There are allusions to both microscopic and macroscopic spaces, blurring the line between the two, creating environments that are both familiar and mysterious. This invites the viewer to contemplate similarities of form across scale, and encourages a connection to the broader universe.

My work is realized through an intricate combination of analog and digital media. I find the relationships between the material and algorithmic processes compelling, and enjoy the discovery aspect of creating compositions from the emergent forms. Through this approach I’m seeking an inherently personal sense of balance between cerebral and physical; logical and emotional; control and chaos; intention and chance.