Bio
Lucienne Mettam is a cross-disciplinary fine artist and designer based in New York City. Her work explores perception as it is shaped by memory, emotion, and the often-unseen connections between individuals, species, and environments. With a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design, she creates compositions that blend drawing, textile influence, and storytelling—evoking dream states, blurred boundaries, and shifting perspectives. Through the use of translucent layers, fragmented forms, and dynamic compositions, Lucienne invites viewers to engage with her work in a way that reveals new perspectives with each encounter.
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Her work has been exhibited in Vanishings (solo, Riverworks Art Center, 2025), Phantasms (solo, Art Hub 609, 2025), Art + Arch with Bell Architects (2025), Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge (2024), the Huntington Arts Council’s Masters Invitational (2020), and elsewhere.
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Artist Statement
Working primarily in graphite and pastel powder on Yupo paper, I build layered compositions that merge precise detail with atmospheric ambiguity, allowing forms to emerge and dissolve within the same space.
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My work moves between the human, animal, and built environment, exploring how these realms reflect and shape one another. The human form appears as a vessel of interior life, often fragmented, translucent, or blurred, suggesting shifting identity, the residue of memory, and the permeability between self and environment. Animals, particularly endangered species, emerge as both individual beings and symbolic carriers of meaning, speaking to our estranged relationship with the natural world while also revealing shared vulnerability, interdependence, and the fragility of survival. At times, cityscapes merge with the forms of the natural world, highlighting the tension and interconnectedness between what we build and what we inherit. Together, these elements create spaces where presence and absence, clarity and obscurity, coexist, inviting reflection on the threads that bind us across species and landscapes.​
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