Fogo/Fire (2018) Painting by Lucia Sapucahy

Lucia Sapucahy - Biography

Lucia Sapucahy was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Always linked to the arts, from an early age she became interested in dance and visual arts. In dance she had training in ballet and jazz. She developed her art in parallel with her teaching career. At the age of ten she painted her first canvas, and her abstract drawings appeared at eleven.

She dedicated most of her adult life to other careers: teaching elementary school and teaching English. Postgraduate in English Language, she intensely lives her love for English, which she learned as a child. Her predominant style is abstract and she uses acrylic as a medium in her paintings. Bright colors, spatulas, use of texture or textured paint are some of its characteristics. The presence of yellow is constant in her paintings -it is a tribute to the sun that always shines in the city where she now resides, Brasília, and to her hometown, Rio de Janeiro. 

She also expresses her art not only through acrylic canvases, but also through her walks through the interaction of photography and painting with digital tracing, an adventure that makes her experience countless flights and produce several series of works, such as the “Reconstruction” series in which the background are photographs taken during the renovation of her home. The construction materials are present and even part of the demolition is included in these works.

Another series is "Primary Plays" where the artist only used the three primary colours as the means for her expression. 

The artist's abstract style is manifested in gouache and acrylic.

She was influenced by artists such as: Van Gogh, Tarsila do Amaral, Cícero Dias, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Djanira The artist has already exhibited in Brazil and abroad. Here are some of his art exhibits.

V Show Friends in Art 2019 - Studio Art Gallery MD'Azevedo - Brasília, DF Amarts Organization
Contemporary Languages - LA3 Art - São Paulo, SP - Curator Juliana Mônaco
Art - Fragments of Singularity - Pousada Gallery - São Paulo, SP - Curated by Carmen Elizabeth Pousada
Lateinamerikanisches - Kunstfestival - Vienna, Austria - Curator: Ângela Oliveira
Confraternização Exhibition 2019 - Studio MD'Azevedo Gallery - Curator - Amarts
ART MORE - Anjos Art Gallery - Porto, Portugal - Curator: Ângela Oliveira
Porto Poético Project - Eurostars Heroísmo - Porto, Portugal - Curatorship: Ângela Oliveira
Contemporary expressions - Days Are art Gallery & IN Port - Porto, Portugal - Curatorship: Ângela Oliveira
Spring Colors - Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal - Curated by: Ângela Oliveira
VI Junifest 2020 Casa Brasil Liechtenstein - Theme: Vielfältigkeit / Diversity - Vaduz, Liechtenstein Curator: Ângela Oliveira
Art in the 21st Century - Women in Action - Pousada Gallery - Curated by Carmen E. Pousada
Novos Tempos - 2nd online collective exhibition - Studio Art MD'Azevedo / Centro de Artes - Curatorship: Amarts
Connected Colors - NC Virtual Gallery - Curator: Ângela Oliveira

• Nationality: BRAZIL
• Date of birth : 1964
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Brazilian Artists