Each month, a D.C. artist visits the Luce Center to share the inspiration behind his or her work and connects it to an artwork from the museum's permanent collection on view. 

Sculptor and ceramist Lindsay Pichaske will be here on Sunday, February 2.  The talk starts at 1:30 p.m., leaving you plenty of time to get some art in before the big game.   

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From Lindsay:

"In my installation, drawing, and sculptural work, I explore the overlaps of seemingly dualistic states of existence. The animal forms I create are grotesque yet beautiful, animate yet inanimate, familiar yet strange, and animal yet human. In my current show at CulturalDC's Flashpoint Gallery, the musculature and skeletal structure of deer, apes, and hybridized animals are drawn with hair. Hair and eyes are vital in my work, as they suggest that these dualities coexist within the same being. These body parts are beautiful, lifelike, and draw empathy. But what happens when they are separated from the body?

It is this question that drew me to the Victorian miniatures at the Luce Center. These lockets encase hand-painted eyes and delicate weavings of human hair. Meant to honor loved ones, these pieces become stand-ins for the humans they belonged to, and thereby embody a sense of life.

Join me on February 2 to learn more about my work and these fascinating miniatures."

-- Lindsay Pichaske

See our  online calendar for more information. Lindsay's talk is presented with CulturalDC 

Image Credit: Unidentified, Member of the Yates Family, ca. 1780, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund