Nicholas Lucius is a painter, mixed media collage artist and a creative innovator in the Avant-Garde, experimenting with human subconscious through the realms of surrealism, high fashion and popular culture.
Lucius sees his work as a “visual feast”, a vehicle to allow viewers to explore and indulge in their own experiences and impact on the external world around us.
Nicholas Lucius’s experimental paintings, being a brilliant mix of different mediums, incorporate elements traditionally used in conceptual and new media art.
Heavily influenced from the surge of POP-Art, and absurdity of the surrealist movement, his Large-scale paintings often start with an idea that is drawn up, painted, and digitally collaged, frankensteining archived images together to stitch his narrative, then, transformed once again, with an abundance of mixed media, using materials like acrylic paint, oil pastel, gold leaf, and swarovski crystals and other forms of decadence.
Imbued with its own evolution, the work takes form through a series of unstructured experiments.
Lucius analyzes the endless possibilities of material or method to introduce an additional dimension to the work, loudly rejecting older artistic structures.
With this, Lucius is able to deliver hyper surreal driven imagery, creating an oeuvre that is witty, compelling and autonomous in the Avant-Garde.
“Art, for me, is about passion, trusting in your creative ideas and harnessing your ability to always be in a state of reinvention. I want the world to see a passion that is constantly fighting against boredom and banality. Maybe even free my viewers from the fatigue of the publicly and politically correct by being more myself than what society says is “correct”.
Lucius sees his work as a “visual feast”, a vehicle to allow viewers to explore and indulge in their own experiences and impact on the external world around us.
Nicholas Lucius’s experimental paintings, being a brilliant mix of different mediums, incorporate elements traditionally used in conceptual and new media art.
Heavily influenced from the surge of POP-Art, and absurdity of the surrealist movement, his Large-scale paintings often start with an idea that is drawn up, painted, and digitally collaged, frankensteining archived images together to stitch his narrative, then, transformed once again, with an abundance of mixed media, using materials like acrylic paint, oil pastel, gold leaf, and swarovski crystals and other forms of decadence.
Imbued with its own evolution, the work takes form through a series of unstructured experiments.
Lucius analyzes the endless possibilities of material or method to introduce an additional dimension to the work, loudly rejecting older artistic structures.
With this, Lucius is able to deliver hyper surreal driven imagery, creating an oeuvre that is witty, compelling and autonomous in the Avant-Garde.
“Art, for me, is about passion, trusting in your creative ideas and harnessing your ability to always be in a state of reinvention. I want the world to see a passion that is constantly fighting against boredom and banality. Maybe even free my viewers from the fatigue of the publicly and politically correct by being more myself than what society says is “correct”.
