Location: Berkeley, CA
Medium: Sculpture, installation, works on paper
Website: lucypuls.com
Lucy Puls is an artist and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis, where she taught in the Department of Art and Art History from 1985 to 2020. Her work is held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and the Jewish Museum in New York. In 2024 she had a solo exhibition at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York, which also featured her work in Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms. Her work has been shown at the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, Foyer-LA in Los Angeles, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, and internationally including Schmidt und Schütte gallery in Essen-Kettwig, Germany.
Puls works with images and objects to explore the uniquely human relationship to material possessions. Personal belongings occupy a psychological and cultural territory that is exceedingly complex — they carry memory, identity, loss, and desire. Her sculptures and installations use the material residue of domestic life as both subject and substance, treating objects that have known the body and the home as bearers of psychological weight. Her work operates through careful transformation of the found and familiar: what appears to be ordinary is altered just enough to become strange and telling.
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