Lucy Fradkin


Lucy Fradkin is an American self-taught artist from New York who paints portraits which often include collage elements. She is inspired by Persian and Indian miniature paintings with bright palettes and flattened space as well as the ancient frescoes and mosaics of Etruria, Rome, and Byzantium. In addition, she visited the Brooklyn Museum as a young artist with her mother and got inspiration from The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago which still influences her works.

Biography

Early life

Lucy was raised in Port Washington, on Manhasset Bay on the north shore of Long Island. She spent many years of her life in southern Vermont as well as a year in Italy. In 1991, the indigenous art & hand-painted signage brought some new ideas to her artworks when she traveled in Mexico and Guatemala. In 1992, She got an awarded in Altos de Chavon. In 1994, she traveled to Greece and Italy and was inspired by so many ancient frescoes and mosaics, even she decided to live in Italy for one year from 2000 to 2003 in order to bring new ideas to her works from the ancient worlds.

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