RISD Grad Show 2026

Lucy Luckovich

MFA Painting

Post-Desire

Lucy Luckovich is an artist primarily working in oil paint to create work that exists as an amalgamation and regurgitation of desire—collective and individual. 

Close-up oil painting of a woman's face. She is leaning backwards, and there is a lug-wrench in front of her face occupying the foreground of the image.

Woman II
oil paint on canvas
52x48"

A small painting of tissue paper with light sage green abstract, impasto marks on top.

Used Tissue
oil on canvas
8x10"

Small, close-up painting of pearls and chains scattered on a floral bedsheet.

Untitled (Bed Sheet Detail)
oil on canvas
12x9"

Painting of a neck stretched backwards with muscles and tendons flexed. It appears slightly wet, and hair is brushing against it painted in flat, dark blue/grey color.

Neck I
oil on canvas
14x16"

Painting of a neck with muscles and tendons flexed. It appears slightly wet, and hair is brushing against it painted in flat, dark blue/grey color.

Neck II
oil on canvas
12x12"

Painting of skin texture underneath an abstract shape in a pale blue color that resembles brush strokes made with a digital software.

Mask I
oil on canvas
26x20"

A tall and narrow painting of a floral patterned fabric with a close up of a single white ribbon in the foreground.

Material I
oil on canvas
78x36"

Large, close-up oil painted portrait of a woman's face. She has piercing blue eyes and parted lips with a chain extending out from both corners of her mouth.

Woman I
oil on canvas
72x60"

with 

Tissue I
oil on canvas
8x10"

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Rhode Island School of Design

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+1 401 454 6100
+1 800 364 RISD