Multi media artist Bob Lucas, formerly of Suquamish, will show a mixture of fused glass paintings, prints and mixed media work at Jeffrey Moose Gallery for April and May. Receptions will be held on two First Fridays, Friday April 2nd and Friday, May 7th. The gallery will Livestream from 6 to 6:20 on April 2nd and host a Zoom session with Mr. Lucas on Friday, May 7th from 6:30-7:30 PM.
Mr. Lucas has an exhibition history dating back to the mid 70’s when he was juried into an exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. He was a co-founder of the experimental Bainbridge Island co-op gallery Net Contents. His work was in high demand during his years in Kitsap; institutions and private collectors commissioned numerous sculptures and enamel on glass works. Working in paint, poetry, glass, metal, concrete, found objects and video, sometimes in deft combination, his work is often highly personal and self analytical in nature, exploring relationships and inner conflicts. His concrete fish heads and tails, as well as the four-legged Darwin fish, sold at the gallery, are found throughout Puget Sound.
Among Kitsap artists in the 80’s and 90’s, Mr. Lucas had few piers who created with such vigor. Recently, two enormous concrete spheres he made were donated to Island School. They originated in the collection of the well-known cartoonist Richard Stein. Seventeen years ago, Mr. Lucas moved to Costa Rica and his long time collaboration with me was put on hold. But in 2014, as my gallery’s time in Rainier Square was coming to an end, he created a special body of work, digital prints, fused glass paintings and multi media work that was exhibited in the Seattle gallery. Some of those works were collaborations with Kitsap artist Tim Beckstrom. Unfortunately, hardly anyone in Kitsap County got to see it. Until now. This show features those works in addition to artworks collected by my parents, Margaret and Richard Moose, as well as some new objects.
The theme of the show, “Nonlocal”, is explained by Mr. Lucas:
“Consider the title “nonlocal” or “nonlocality”. It is a term in physics that refers to a state of matter or maybe better put, an absence of a state of matter. It has been taken up by psychology and more recently as a philosophical idea called nonduality which is where I discovered it. I have studied nonduality for about a decade now and it is the basis for my recent work. The 2014 artwork was wandering into or out of the ether of an ever more rarified narrative dream state commonly known as reality. From one quality of dream to another…. ?”
