BLISS, LUCINDA

Biography
Lucinda Bliss is an artist, writer, teacher, and administrator with 20 years of experience in higher education. She currently serves as Dean of the College of Arts & Media at the University of Colorado Denver. Her work has been shown at venues including the Stanley Whitman House Museum, Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, the Ogunquit Museum of Art, Aucocisco Gallery, Common Street Arts, Bates College Museum of Art, the Tucson Museum of Art, The Brattleboro Museum, and the Boston Center for the Arts. She has enjoyed residencies at the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others.

Statement
My recent mixed media collage work explores the ways that literature and art have shaped our understanding of American identity, often depicting histories that disappear the experiences of Indigenous and Black Americans, as well as those of women. Partial and false narratives permeate the ways we conceptualize landscape, national identity, and our experience of place. I’m interested in inverting and distorting this imagery as a way of poking holes in problematic, seemingly benign narratives and opening up new ways of understanding our relationship to the land.

Website: www.lucindabliss.art
Instagram: @blisspix