Award-winning artist Lucy Barber received her MFA in painting and drawing from Brooklyn College City University of New York, and a BFA from The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Lucy's lush, painterly oils are utterly deceptive in their simplicity. Her sophisticated use of color and her masterful economy of detail elevates her subjects beyond the mundane. Her transformative editing smooths the vulgar excesses of reality, and drills down to the very thing-ness of the thing itself. The effect is simultaneously dignified and captivating - it is painting of the highest order. Barber has received two grants each from the Halo Arts Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; she was awarded the Grumbacher Award & Gold Medal at the 169th Annual Exhibition at the National Academy of Design in NYC; received two grants from the Maine Arts Commission, as well as several research grants from Bowdoin College including a travel grant to paint in Italy. Lucy has been making art and painting and drawing for 50+ years, has exhibited nationally since the early 1980’s, and has exhibited internationally in Italy as well as in the American Embassy in Nicosia, Greece through the US Dept. of State’s Art In Embassies Program.Barber’s work has been reviewed in notable press such as The New York Times, The New York Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Art New England, Maine Sunday Telegram, among others. Lucy has taught at Pratt Institute, the Rhode Island School of Design, Maine College of Art and the Ringling College of Art & Design as well as The College of William & Mary and Bowdoin College. Lucy Barber's work is in corporate and private collections, including the United States Department of State, as well as in museums.