Mara De Luca
Mara De Luca’s art practice fuses together disparate ideas like the glossy advertising of high fashion brands and an expressionistic painting technique filtered through the gauze of her life in Los Angeles. De Luca uses color and texture to evoke memories of a place; dusk monochromes, nighttime clouds and glowing sunsets are a direct response to the beauty of the Southern California landscape, whereas stoic colors and metallic frames glamorize the bleakness of the industrial Southland freeways. Often referencing literature and poetry, she allows her experience of these diverse elements to inform her work. De Luca has had solo exhibitions at the Irvine Fine Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
“My art pieces are a reflection on contemporary culture expressed though a diverse, project-driven and contextual approach to painting. Whether through an exploration of clichéd modernist technique such as ‘action painting’ or by way of mimicking contemporary digital imaging tropes, I employ and exploit the complex range of the medium's history, its diverse visual contexts, theoretical constructs as well as material, process and craft.” –De Luca
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Mara De Luca | Capricorn Rising
Jan 13 - Feb 24, 2024 7722 Girard AvenueQuint Gallery is pleased to begin the new year with Capricorn Rising, an exhibition of recent paintings by Mara De Luca. De Luca’s painting practice, informed by the unique qualities of her surroundings and place, studies the psychological and emotional impact of light and landscape.Read more -
Quint Popup in Los Angeles
Feb 7 - 19, 2023This month, Quint Gallery is heading to Los Angeles. From February 7-19, we're popping up at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica, exhibiting a selection of paintings, drawings,...Read more -
BOUNTEOUS | A Group Exhibition
Mar 26 - May 21, 2022 7655 Girard Avenue, 7722 Girard AvenueBOUNTEOUS, a group show, will take over both La Jolla locations (7655/7722 Girard Avenue) from March 26 through May 21. The exhibition will be a vibrant conversation between many of...Read more -
A Large Group of Small Artworks at 7722 Girard Avenue
Dec 11, 2021 - Jan 15, 2022 7722 Girard AvenueTo close out our 40th year, Quint Gallery is using the 7722 Girard Avenue gallery to show a large grouping of small works, including painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Doors...Read more -
Mara De Luca | West Coast Paintings
Nov 13, 2021 - Jan 8, 2022 7655 Girard AvenueQuint Gallery is thrilled to announce a solo exhibition of recent works by Los Angeles-based painter Mara De Luca. West Coast Paintings, as the title suggests, draws on the unique...Read more -
Distant Light
A Group Exhibition of Black and White Work Apr 7 - May 19, 2018 5171 Santa FeAndrew Alcasid Michael James Armstrong Barry Bell Adam Belt Kelsey Brookes Gisela Colón Stephen P. Curry Kenneth Capps Mara De Luca Roman De Salvo Thomas Demello Peter Dreher Tom Driscoll...Read more -
Mara De Luca | Lead Me Through the Dawn
Oct 1 - Nov 19, 2016 5171 Santa FeQuint Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Mara De Luca. The exhibition will open in our Gallery A with a Morning Stop...Read more -
Atmospheric Abstraction | Larry Bell, Gisela Colón, Mara De Luca, and Heather Gwen Martin
Quint Contemporary Art: 7547 Girard Avenue Dec 12, 2015 - Jan 30, 2016Quint Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition by four artists from Los Angeles, featuring new work by Larry Bell, Gisela Colón, Mara De Luca and Heather Gwen Martin....Read more -
Mara De Luca | Even if the Lights Go Out
Quint Contemporary Art: 7547 Girard Avenue Jun 8 - Jul 27, 2013“Early successes, Creation’s favorite ones, mountain-chains, ridges reddened by dawns of all origin – pollen of flowering godhead, junctions of light, corridors, stairs, thrones, spaces of being, shields of bliss,...Read more