Luz Donahue, “Reach Out First”
PROGRAM DETAILS
Date: Friday, June 24, 2022 | 12 - 1pm PT
Location: Virtual Zoom
Tickets: $10 Suggested Donation
Join us for a special virtual artist talk with Luz Donahue, our In the Artist’s Studio artist.
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About Luz Donahue
Luz is a self-taught artist living in Santa Cruz, California. She was born in San Jose, Costa Rica and started painting at an early age. I’ve been self-employed most of my adult life, always balancing between my career as a self-taught marketing consultant and as a painter.
I am interested in digital connection and consciousness. This informs an approach in my work that seeks to connect the space between my autobiographical perspective and a collective experience.
About Luz’s Art Practice
“My practice is in exploring my own perception to bring the unconscious into the conscious through a visual diary. In this talk I'll break down my process, how I came to it and developed it.
While painting I do not plan out an outcome. I respond to each layer of paint uniquely. This is a way that I record the recursive nature of my experience. Whether the moment is full of play, grief, or confusion doesn't really matter because the whole of it---once complete--- can still find balance. It's my job to feel my reaction to each layer from a place of immediate honesty.
These paintings are created to shift with light to honor shifting perspectives.
This process does not include planning. Instead, each day I respond intuitively to the images in front of me with a new perspective. Eventually, this weaves an image that encapsulates the many moments making up the season during which each piece was created. As part of the process, artwork titles are born out of the overlaps I notice in what exists within my own personal landscape and in the collective digital space during the time of the creation of the work.
This process does not include planning. Instead, each day I respond intuitively to the images in front of me with a new perspective. Eventually, this weaves an image that encapsulates the many moments making up the season during which each piece was created. As part of the process, artwork titles are born out of the overlaps I notice in what exists within my own personal landscape and in the collective digital space during the time of the creation of the work.
The process itself was born from a compassionate recognition of my own limitations and strengths as a neurodivergent person that has battled chronic illness. My mission and hope for my practice is that it will empower folks to edit from social expectations and create ways of working that fit their personal ideals more deeply while recognizing what makes them unique. In the process, I hope to demystify abstract art and what it is capable of teaching us through experience.
I use my social media channels as a way to break down and show my daily practice. You can find videos and commentary on my process on Tiktok and Instagram by searching "Luz Donahue Art".”
-Luz Donahue
In the Artist's Studio is generously supported by the Borgenicht Foundation.
The Borgenicht Foundation works to promote the understanding of secularism as the way and hope for establishing peace in the world. In addition, the Foundation supports social justice, conservation and historic preservation, the arts, health, and education.
