Leticia LacyDiving into story, color, and the unknown.Born in Los Angeles and trained at UC Santa Barbara, Leticia Lacy brings a rich visual storytelling background to her fine art practice. Before turning full-time to painting, she worked as a color designer and art director for some of animation’s most iconic shows—including Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and The Powerpuff Girls. Today, she channels that same narrative instinct into contemporary figurative work that explores risk, resilience, and transformation—often through the lens of a single swimmer.Her ongoing series features women poised between moments—diving from clouds, floating midair, or gazing toward new horizons. With vivid palettes and cinematic framing, her work merges California cool with quiet emotional depth. The result is vintage nostalgia reimagined through a modern, female perspective—balancing bold color with softness, motion with stillness.In 2024 alone, her work has been collected and exhibited across the country, including shows in Austin, Palm Beach, Dallas, and Santa Fe. In California, her paintings have appeared in group exhibitions from San Francisco to Palm Springs. A signature element of her practice is her use of circular wood panels—portals, she says, that open onto another place and time.Leticia paints with intention and instinct. Her work doesn’t just tell a story—it invites the viewer to leap in.