Lucas Gandy       lucas.currio@gmail.com       Boston, MA

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After completing the Southern Oregon Art Academy, a program based on the classic painting atelier, I joined Cornell Fine Arts. There I took to modern and living art, expanding my practice with sculpture and video.

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In sculpture, I often think about hygiene. How good and bad are literalized into what is clean and what is dirty. As a queer person, I'm especially interested in this distortion. Using soap, bleach, erasers, tube whites, I emphasize materials that are typically subtractive, purifying, or default. I've "rotted" my work with repeated bleaching. Made specimens from soap. With this, I imagine our discreet methods of removal as demonstrating their own additive, even procreative, behavior. I think about the collision of social and germ theories. Where the ideal and the living meet an impasse. Our deadlock with dirt.

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My ongoing paint series, "Meet the Millers", orbits a YouTube channel that streams the lives of 5 children and their parents. I think about vlog voyeurism, early identity, and the online document as our most indelible way to "save".

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I've studio assisted for artists Carrie Mae Weems (NY) and Pietro Ruffo (Rome).

At The House of Colors art academy, I taught studio art to kids and adults. ​

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My work has been shown at The Johnson Museum (2016, 2019), Front Art Space in NYC (2016), House of Colors in Boston (2022, 2023), Tjaden Art Gallery (2015, 2017, 2019), and The Rogue Gallery and Art Center (2014).