About the Artist and Exhibition:

Gianna Lucia is an emerging artist and writer, with a background in visual art and communication design. She is interested in the hybridization and juxtaposition of arts and literary genres, found in experimental arts practices. She recently has worked as an artist in residency, and curated numerous low brow art shows at the Rites
of Passage Festival and Tattoo Surf n’ Ink Convention on the gold coast. She has performed as a live painter, including showcasing multiple artworks in numerous group art exhibitions including Meeting of Styles, Grolsch Grid, Ladie Killerz and Stayfly. Her work is a reflection of everyday life in the city and industrially designed urban environments, drawing contrast to the organic processes inherent within the natural world in order to recontextualize these elements to question consumeristic tendencies.

American Gothic takes the viewer on a journey into the rendition and reinterpretation and parody of the painting by Grant Woods, titled ` American Gothic’ otherwise most popularly known as The Farmer and his Wife. The artwork in the first solo show retrospective takes a look back into the life and work of artist Gianna Lucia and spans her career as a Tattoo Artist, and illustrator, painter and multi-disciplinary artist. A street art landscape invites the viewer to inhabit a location based awareness of being surrounded by beachy landscapes, the sea, a country town reminiscent of a Twin Peaks homage to David Lynch, and transforms a small gallery environment reminiscing the artist’s own personal depiction of the 20thcentury painting titled, `American Gothic’. A window is installed, a representation of Gothic Architecture, a window to the mind of the viewer is opened simultaneously creating a new viewing space for perhaps a leisurely more so humorous look at art. To engage with the mind of the artist into the quirky yet maximalist collection of both the artists own eccentricity whilst capturing over a decade of her own personal life experience which fuels the creative thinking behind the narrative and hidden symbolism found in the illusive mark making practices of time and linear rhythm capture which encompasses each individual work of Art