Dolly: Paintings by Lucy Luckovich

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Atlanta oil painter Lucy Luckovich uses selfies, internet imagery, advertising, and AI-generated content to create distorted images that amuse and confuse. “I am trying to understand how much of my desire is truly mine, and whether it is possible to move beyond the feedback loops created by the systems that shape us,” she says. “The paintings don’t attempt to resolve that question. Instead, they exist within the confusion, contradiction, pleasure and anxiety that surround it.” Luckovich, 26, comes by her talent honestly: her father is Mike Luckovich, editorial cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution with two Pulitzer Prizes to his name. And why choose the name “Dolly” for the exhibition? We’re told it was inspired by the famous cloned sheep who originated from a mammary gland cell. Ian Wilmut, the biologist who instigated the cloning project, revealed his team “couldn’t think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton’s.”

— Kevin C. Madigan

Atlanta painter Lucy Luckovich merges selfies, advertising, internet imagery, and AI-generated content into distorted paintings that explore identity, desire, replication, pleasure, and anxiety.

Artists: Lucy Luckovich

Venue: Wolfgang Gallery

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