About

Bio

Lucrecia Troncoso is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Argentina who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. Having a strong background in Ceramics, she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in New Practices from San Francisco State University in 2005 and has exhibited locally and internationally, including the Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, the Universitat de Girona, in Girona, Spain, El Basilisco in Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Bronx Museum, in New York City, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, both in California, the Visual Art Museum of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama, the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art in Florida, and the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also completed residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, where she received an Emmy Gifford Foundation Fellowship, and at the Santa Fe Art Institute, among others. Lucrecia, a ceramicist since her childhood, makes ceramic tableware and decor at www.barrobylucrecia.com, enjoys being in nature, making music, and making empanadas argentinas to share with people.

Artist Statement

I explore the materials that make up the things of the world: clay, plaster, chips of stone, canvas, sewing thread, color pencils, wooden boards… I try to imagine these materials as their own entities in a world where consumerism, marketability, advertising—and often cultural motives—do not exist. How then, will these materials manifest themselves? How, if at all, will people engage with them? Will we still use plaster to make buttery-smooth walls in our homes, thread to make trinkets for loved ones, and colored pencils or paints to depict landscapes? To answer these questions, I work to peel the bias off of any material where it may have attached, and try to get to the material’s essence. I then begin labor-intensive and methodical processes, which, instead of transforming a material, absurdly preserve it. These explorations take me to the inherent physical qualities of materials and throw light upon modern society’s purpose and understanding of them. My hope is that materials become autonomous, and people, acquainted with new realizations.