B. Lucy Stevens is an internationally recognized mixed-media artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. Lucy paints intuitively, and her work is vibrant and expressionistic. Daily life is imagined in a brilliant cacophony of color and pattern with deeply affecting results. She is inspired by primitive and outsider art and her far-flung travels, from South America, to Indonesia to the South of France, where she lived for a year on a flower farm.

Lucy leads art workshops for children in underserved communities and for adults with developmental disabilities, and she is hugely inspired by their art as well.

Her work is in private collections around the world and has been featured in galleries and shows throughout the U.S. as well as in France and the U.K. She is represented by Lucky Street Gallery, in Key West, Florida.

Personal Statement

Life comes at me all at once, and making art enables me see the world clearly with all its confusion, wonder and beauty. This is what I try to capture in my paintings, and what I want people to see when they look at them.
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Writing used to be my means of expression but then words became like dough that stuck to my fingers. So now I paint and I know it is what I’m meant to do. My paintings are everything I think and feel and witness, everything I find funny and sad and absurd. They are my offering of myself to the world. Like Jean DuBuffet, I believe that art is most interesting when it’s “an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depths of a person’s soul.”

“B. Lucy Stevens is a force to be reckoned with. She charts her own course outside the mainstream and seems thrilled to be there. With each of her pieces, her big, messy, crowded and colorful world exudes compositional excellence and an extraordinarily subtle color sense. Her canvases are peopled with strange beings...some interacting with the viewer and some blissfully oblivious to the world around them.

The end result is a hugely satisfying and thought-provoking image that is at the same time both the soul of innocence and a strongly powerful presence."

--- Jon McIntosh, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, Florida

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Shows

2017 Resistance Works, Lyra Gallery, Providence, RI
2016 Thereby Hangs A Tale, Museum of Oxford, Oxford, England
2016 HAF International Doodle Show
2016 “Bus Stop,” solo show, The Studios of Key West , Key West, FL
2015 Carre D ‘Artistes, New York, Paris, Lille, Bordeaux, London
2014 “Opposites,” Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL
2014 “Neo-Outsiders,” Monmouth Museum, Monmouth,NJ 2014
2014 “Tell Me Where I Am,” solo show, Dryden Gallery, Providence, RI
2014 Fearington Folk Art Show, Durham, NC
2013 NAMA (New Art, New Artists) Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL
2013 “Five,” group Show, Grimshaw-Gudewiscz Gallery,Fall River, MA2014
2013 “I EAT ART,” Outsider Art Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ
2012 “Contained”, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI
2012 Juror’s Award, Grimmshaw-Gudewiscz Gallery, Fall River, MA
2011 Juried Show, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2011 “Past, Present and Future,” Pawtucket Arts, Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI
2010 “The Toy Show,” Outsider Art Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ
2010 Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2009 “The French Postcard,” Outsider Art Gallery,Frenchtown, NJ
2008 REBEL HQ Gallery, solo show, Providence, RI
2008 “Nursery Rhymes,” Outsider Art, Frenchtown NJ
2008 “Providence Art Windows,” Providence, RI

RESIDENCIES

2012 The Studios at Key West, Key West, FL
2015 The Studios at Key West, Key West, FL