“You seldom get an artist who’s both prolific and very attentive to all the details in her work. It never looks cranked out.” Nancy Kapitanoff, The Los Angeles Times
“This is an artist who is in touch with her unconscious mind, and not afraid to take a good look at what is there. Her extraordinary insights, filtered through a perceptive female intelligence, are serious ones that are often hilariously conveyed.” Mary Alice Cline, The Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA
“Catalyzed by the events of 9/11, this multi-media project is a tentative yet tantalizing dreamscape that takes us from the World Trade Center to the Warsaw Ghetto to a Western Ghost Town. The result: we run through history and it runs through us.” The SilverLake Film Festival on “Running Through History Parts One and Two."
“Lucinda is one of the rare “Renaissance” artists working today. Not only does she produce incredibly diverse art works in various materials, and techniques, including sculpture and mixed- media; she also brings to her art a deep and profound understanding of the human condition, including our many fears and foibles.” Merrilyn Duzy/Artist/Curator
“Luvaas recognizes that surrounding every human gesture is an aura of silence, a zone of transparency which distances it from other gestures and from objects and beings. She presents us with the equivalent of a social ecosystem in which gestures are the inhabiting life forms. By stressing the importance of gesture, Luvaas is also emphasizing the fusion of life and communication.”
Catalogue: From Narrative to Magic Realism, essay written by Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Lehigh University.
“Lucinda infuses an intangible glimmer of hope in even her darkest works, but most importantly a sense of good humor despite depicting some of our most embarrassing human foibles. She looks at the world with an insider’s eye and somehow manages to fill her audience in on the joke.”
Daniel McAnulty, Comrades Magazine
“Lucinda Luvaas has created a world of rompin’, stompin’ lunacy, simultaneously funny and unnerving. She has achieved something unique and marvelous.” William Anthony, Artist
“Lucinda Luvaas is exuberantly creative.” April Gornik, Artist
“Lucinda Luvaas’s compelling works instantly engage the attention of both art expert and lay person alike. A casual glance and a viewer will want to check them out further for the entertainment that their cartoonish demeanor implies. But upon closer inspection one discovers layers of meaning.....unexpected insight regarding human behavior.....reflections of the self, sometimes funny, sometimes jarring and always real.
Each piece is a narrative that includes a character, or cast of characters fulfilling the roles that happenstance has designed for them. And Luvaas is keenly aware of the nuances. In addition to being a talented storyteller, she is also a master technician. Offering us a profound blend of art and the dance of life, she keeps us on our toes and eager to come back for more.”
On "Familiar Voices," Norma Jean Squires/Artist/Curator