Artwork Description
Monica Lundy – January 16, 2018, Rome
Dimensions: 8 x 6″ unframed
Year: 2020
Medium: burned drawing on Fabriano paper
This drawing belongs to a special group of pieces by Monica Lundy. If you buy one of these drawings by December 1 you will help fund the publication of a book on Monica Lundy’s artwork by acclaimed curator, art historian, and art advisor Giuliana Benassi. Order now to receive your artwork by December 24! We will then send the book to you when it is published mid-2021.
About this work Monica says, “On June 12, 2017, I arrived at the American Academy in Rome with a suitcase, a small selection of art supplies and a two small boxes of my favorite Fabriano medioevalis papers. One of my first experiences at the Academy was attending a lecture by Anne Hamilton, in which she cited:
‘Sometimes you have to go half way around the world, to a place with a language you don’t speak, to come into recognition. As an artist, you always begin with nothing. You must begin blank, which means you arrive with nothing. But you always have your hands with you.’
Since that day, her words have been pinned to my various transitory studio walls. When I arrived to Rome in 2017, I had just begun a significant life transformation, in which almost every aspect of my previous life had to be let go. In retrospect, it was in fact a time of profound metamorphosis.”