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BIOGRAPHY
MONIQUE LUCK ART
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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.
Luck is a self-taught artist, who is very active in the art world and in her
community. She has exhibited frequently across the United States.
Monique uses color to express her feelings. "Regardless if I use paint,
paper, or another media, color is how I connect to any piece I create,"
she explains. "The process of creating work by tearing and cutting paper
is deeply personal. The emotion in my pieces comes directly from the
emotions I experience while creating. Each piece tells a story."
Monique worked as a partner for Kollman Simone Designs, a company
that she and her business partner, artist Leslie Ansley, started to allow
the creation of large murals for schools and businesses. She worked
with the Sprout Public Art Program to create two large public murals.
One mural which resides permanently in Squirrel Hill, was featured on the
PBS Documentary, "It's the Neighborhoods." She also completed a mural
for Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 60th Anniversary Celebration. She
received a grant from the Multi Cultural Arts Initiative to create a
permanent mural installation in Pittsburgh honoring the late August
Wilson.
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. In September 2007 she was awarded first place and received
the 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. She received
the Judges choice award at Festival in the Park 2008 and the Best in
Show award 2009 in Charlotte, NC. She also received an Honorable
Mention award at the 2009 Affaire in the Gardens, Beverly Hills. Currently
Monique is represented by the New York House of Art Gallery in
Brooklyn, NY. Her work can also be found at the Art Charlotte Gallery in
Charlotte, NC.
Monique continues to try new techniques and ideas to further develop
her style and to fulfill her passion for creating.
media. Her sense of color and tone is impeccable as she models the
features of figures and natural forms using fragments of found paper.
Luck is a self-taught artist, who is very active in the art world and in her
community. She has exhibited frequently across the United States.
Monique uses color to express her feelings. "Regardless if I use paint,
paper, or another media, color is how I connect to any piece I create,"
she explains. "The process of creating work by tearing and cutting paper
is deeply personal. The emotion in my pieces comes directly from the
emotions I experience while creating. Each piece tells a story."
Monique worked as a partner for Kollman Simone Designs, a company
that she and her business partner, artist Leslie Ansley, started to allow
the creation of large murals for schools and businesses. She worked
with the Sprout Public Art Program to create two large public murals.
One mural which resides permanently in Squirrel Hill, was featured on the
PBS Documentary, "It's the Neighborhoods." She also completed a mural
for Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 60th Anniversary Celebration. She
received a grant from the Multi Cultural Arts Initiative to create a
permanent mural installation in Pittsburgh honoring the late August
Wilson.
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. In September 2007 she was awarded first place and received
the 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. She received
the Judges choice award at Festival in the Park 2008 and the Best in
Show award 2009 in Charlotte, NC. She also received an Honorable
Mention award at the 2009 Affaire in the Gardens, Beverly Hills. Currently
Monique is represented by the New York House of Art Gallery in
Brooklyn, NY. Her work can also be found at the Art Charlotte Gallery in
Charlotte, NC.
Monique continues to try new techniques and ideas to further develop
her style and to fulfill her passion for creating.