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Biography
Monique Luck creates soulful and wonderfully lyrical images in mixed media. Her
sense of color and tone is impeccable as she models the features of figures and
natural forms using fragments of found paper. “Regardless if I use paint, paper,
or another media, color is how I connect to any piece I create,” she explains.
“The emotion in my pieces comes directly from the emotions I experience in life.
Each piece tells a story.”
Luck is an award winning self-taught artist and muralist. In 2006, Monique was
chosen to receive one of the emerging artist scholarships for the Three Rivers
Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was also honored to be chosen as
one of the 25 honorees of the Woman and Girls Foundation's celebration of Women
in the Material World on December 8, 2006 at the Carnegie Music Hall in
Pittsburgh. Monique’s work as a public muralist with the Sprout Fund is featured
in the PBS Documentary, “It’s the Neighborhoods.” She was awarded a grant from
the Multi Cultural Arts Initiative in 2007 to create a permanent mural
Installation. In September 2007 she received the First Place Carol Dixon Award
at the Art on Main Fine Art Festival in Fort Mill, South Carolina and Best in
Show 2009. In 2008 she was commissioned by the Charlotte Post Foundation of
Charlotte, North Carolina to create a piece for one of Charlotte's luminaries,
Julius Chambers. Monique received the 2008 Judges Choice award and 2009 Best in
Show award at Festival in the Park Charlotte, NC. She also received an Honorable
Mention at the 2009 Beverly Hills Affaire in the Gardens.
Selected recent exhibits include: The African American Museum of Dallas: Carroll
Sims Biennial Art Exhibition. N.E.W. Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh. NC. South
Carolina State Museum 2008 Juried Exhibition: Columbia, SC. Pittsburgh Recast:
Heinz History Center Museum Pittsburgh, PA. NY. First Voice: International Black
Arts Festival, Grand Scale Collaborations: 209 Gallery Pittsburgh, PA. Art Off
the Main: Puck Building SOHO, NY. Figurative Gestures: Agora Gallery New York,
NY. Live Free or Die: Rhonda Schaller Studio New York, NY. Art for August:
August Wilson Center Gallery Pittsburgh, PA. Affaire in the Garden Beverly
Hills, CA. National Black Arts Festival Atlanta, GA. Rotunda Gallery Solo
Exhibit Rock Hill City Hall, SC.
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