Lucy Mink: As Is
October 12 – Nov 11, 2023
Satchel Projects is delighted to present As Is, an exhibition of recent works by Lucy Mink, on view from October 12 through November 11, 2023. There will be an opening reception for the artist from 6–8PM on Thursday, October 12.
Reflecting an improvisational approach, the guileless canvases in As Is embody moments of lived experience — a kind of “daily noticing” — of light and shadow, encountered color, passages of music, lines of poetry. Intimately scaled, personal and frank, these works are a kind of call-and-response between eye, mind, and hand.
“As Is” refers to the notion of “taking things as they are.” Mink has noticed a discernible current in contemporary life — a shift toward acceptance — of humans on their own terms, of life as it presents itself, at face value. “As Is” also suggests an ethos of sustainability and re-use — the thrift item, the slightly used, the lightly worn, the patina of a useful life. The works in the exhibition relate to these ideas via their economy of means and scale, the visibility of the hand, and the way painterly language is used to tell a simple yet eloquent truth.
A deep knowledge of historical and contemporary art is palpable in the present work — the light and shadow of de Chirico, the directness of Moira Dryer, the rawness of Lee Lozano. An artist with a longstanding practice, Mink knows the value of understatement. The work in As Is reflects a distillation, with the unstated / understood being as powerful as the stated.
Lucy Mink (b.1968) lives and and works in Contoocook, NH. Mink’s work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions including Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT; McGowan Fine Art in Concord, NH; Jaffe-Freide Gallery at Dartmouth College; Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, St. Louis, MO; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; Outlet Fine Art, Brooklyn NY; Barney Savage Gallery in NYC; LABspace Gallery, Hillsdale NY; and Kishka Gallery in White River Junction, VT. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and has been an Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College. Mink received her MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and her BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design.
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