ABOUT THE ARTIST:

 

Lumi Cager is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and musician based in North Florida with a degree in psychology, studio art, and art history. Lumi's collective body of work has been built on literal and metaphorical qualities of mortality, memory, time, emotional impressions, mental illness, and historical references for current social commentary.

 

Practicing various classic and modern printmaking methods for nearly a decade, Lumi's works employ etching, screenprint, linoleum and woodcuts, monotypes, and collagraphs. Their mixed media art relies on an array of techniques and practices to produce a vaguely scientific, psychological experience that reaches into the emotional euphoria and violence of the human condition.

 

Merging original and found imagery, each composition twists into stark observations of personal and collective traumas, woes, fears and superstitions. References to physical sciences, metaphysics, and pseudosciences are often paired with text and affixed images of domestic items are broken down to symbols- a phone for communication or doors/windows for moving on, clocks to represent our lifetimes, etc., anchoring on our concepts of memory, drama and tragedy.

 

Lumi’s works lean head-first into discomfort, often cutting tensions with color palettes drawing from nostalgias such as mid-century deco, faded vintage band shirts, and wild carpets in kindergarten classrooms. By utilizing a constantly expanding range of materials and moods, the goal of the artist is to always learn and share that knowledge in a way that sparks curiosity for the viewer, to be able to inwardly or outwardly discuss topics, concepts, truths, and memories that the work provokes.