{"id":15503,"date":"2025-05-07T12:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2025-05-10T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:04:03","slug":"mara-de-luca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/mara-de-luca\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara De Luca"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7303\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15503-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/MaraDeLuca.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/MaraDeLuca.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/MaraDeLuca.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><div><i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidtotah.com\/mara-de-luca-1\">Mara De Luca&#8217;s<\/a><\/i><\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15505\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidtotah.com\/mara-de-luca-1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15505\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT.jpg?resize=267%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C737&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C553&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1106&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1474&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C501&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C769&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C1382&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">portrait by Lile Kvantaliani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i>(b. 1973, Washington D.C.) paintings evoke a sense of atmospheric abstractions that bring to mind dusk, sunsets, and planetary orbs. Throughout her work there is a sense of reflected ambient light. De Luca&#8217;s work today extends the celebration of illusionism, romanticism, and the sublime with a deeply informed response to modernist painting.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><br \/>\nDe Luca received an MFA from CalArts, Los Angeles, CA and a\u00a0BA from\u00a0Columbia University, NY. Her work has been displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and is in prominent collections, including the\u00a0Buck Collection at UC Irvine, JP Morgan Chase, New York; Fidelity, Boston; Alexander Plaza Berlin, Germany; New York Medical College, New York; and the University of Oslo, Norway. She has been reviewed in Artforum, Cultured Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Artweek LA, and others.\u00a0De Luca is a recipient of the 2019 California\u00a0Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists. She has taught Painting at UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Davis and UC Riverside.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><br \/>\nBased in Los Angeles for over two decades, De Luca now lives and works in New York.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15506\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15506 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-23_Western-Gate-1_PRINT_MDL1484.jpg?resize=696%2C522&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-23_Western-Gate-1_PRINT_MDL1484-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-23_Western-Gate-1_PRINT_MDL1484-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-23_Western-Gate-1_PRINT_MDL1484-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-23_Western-Gate-1_PRINT_MDL1484-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mara De Luca, Western Gate 1, 2024 mixed media on canvas with copper plated element 54 \u00d7 96 inches (137 \u00d7 244 cm)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15507\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15507 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Western-Gate-2_web_MDL-1572.jpg?resize=696%2C522&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Western-Gate-2_web_MDL-1572.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Western-Gate-2_web_MDL-1572.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Western-Gate-2_web_MDL-1572.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Western-Gate-2_web_MDL-1572.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Western-Gate-2_web_MDL-1572.jpg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Western-Gate-2_web_MDL-1572.jpg?resize=1068%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Western-Gate-2_web_MDL-1572.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Western-Gate-2_web_MDL-1572.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mara De Luca, Western Gate 2, 2024 acrylic on primed and unprimed canvas with brass plated element 59 x 132 inches (150 x 335.5 cm)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15508\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15508\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Cut-Western-Clouds_web_MDL-1575.jpg?resize=696%2C928&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Cut-Western-Clouds_web_MDL-1575-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Cut-Western-Clouds_web_MDL-1575-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Cut-Western-Clouds_web_MDL-1575-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Cut-Western-Clouds_web_MDL-1575-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Cut-Western-Clouds_web_MDL-1575-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C928&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Cut-Western-Clouds_web_MDL-1575-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1424&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Cut-Western-Clouds_web_MDL-1575-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MDL-24_Cut-Western-Clouds_web_MDL-1575-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mara De Luca, Cut Western Clouds, 2024, mixed media on cut canvas with copper plated elements, 48 x 42 x 3 inches (122 x 106.5 x 7.5 cm).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/MaraDeLuca.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMara De Luca&#8217;s (b. 1973, Washington D.C.) paintings evoke a sense of atmospheric abstractions that bring to mind dusk, sunsets, and planetary orbs. 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