Cathy Della Lucia
Touch is a method for Cathy Della Lucia, though her hand is often imperceptible in her wood and clay-based works. Her sinewy, elongated forms, or more curving, thickset shapes, are crafted by gently fashioning these familiar materials into the abstract. Clay and wood are dynamic, remembering how they are touched, but also affected by their intrinsic and extrinsic conditions. Touch—of one element to another—also characterizes her use of modularity; all of her works join at multiple points that follow their own logic. This joinery is pointedly not permanent, with each connection following a pattern of uncertainty and precarity, but nevertheless achieving a delicate and determined settling. The individual elements of the whole, therefore, come together as one through touch, affecting each other for as long as the work remains.
Della Lucia received an MFA in sculpture from Boston University. She has recently exhibited at Piano Craft Gallery (Boston, Massachusetts), Able Baker Gallery (Portland, Maine), and internationally at Ara Art Center (Seoul, Korea) and Art Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark).
