Complete with skeleton sketch and self-portrait, sculptor Michael Lucero wrote to Patti Warashina in 1979. Transcribe this letter to learn more about fashions and culture in NYC according to a young artist.
Complete with skeleton sketch and self-portrait, sculptor Michael Lucero wrote to Patti Warashina in 1979. Transcribe this letter to learn more about fashions and culture in NYC according to a young artist.
Working in clay, Michael Lucero (b. 1953) incorporates stylistic references from various cultures into his work. These influences include pre-Columbian, Native American, European and African. In this letter to Warashina, Lucero references his admiration for Mexican art and other artists working in New York. Lucero's work has been interpreted as creating complex, hybrid forms that comment on the changing nature of society and environment in which we live. This letter is part of the papers of Seattle-based ceramist Patti Warashina, which are held by the Archives of American Art.
Learn more about Lucero and Warashina and see more of Lucero's correspondence with artists at the Archives of American Art. Furthermore, Lucero's sculptures can be visited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.