Lucas, Keli (Bridgeman Studio)
Creator details
- Name
- Lucas, Keli
- Nationality
- American
- Biography
- Expressionistic portrait artist, activist and humanitarian born and raised in a Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, NY. As a student that later taught at NYC’s School of Visual Arts, she honed a deeper understanding of art and its place in not only history, but the human psyche across emotional spectrums. Her work focuses on depicting the soul behind the eyes of people who she feels enlighten her. She draws inspiration from the cacophony of light and color of the environment around her. Lucas has a unique ability to capture the emotions that make up the human experience with each brush stroke. "My work is a study of everything and it's relation to the human experience." As a humanitarian and activist, she is an advocate for women, queer rights, self-expression, and creative empowerment. Keli is an artist who expresses her activism through her work with the goal of proving to the world that the creative mind, using art and creativity as tools, will help evolve society. Lucas believes that through shocking visuals depicted with an essence of beauty, provoke complex thought. Being a queer female Jewish philosopher in study, Lucas hopes to have her unique perspectives and questions added to future religious texts such as the Rambam. Looking to shatter religious conventions, similar to her own, that have been holding women back as second class citizens. Keli believes that, “Everyone deserves a connection to the source and should be uplifted and appreciated for being exactly who they are”. Her journey has been a search for equality, acceptance and love for all the beings that the universal consciousness has created.
