Based in Chicago, IL, Lucy Slivinski is a critically acclaimed sculptor, installation artist, and lighting designer whose works present mystical rest-stops on the path toward spiritual revelation. An advocate for exploring the dynamics of potential, Lucy Slivinski’s work serve as guides to the unknown while weaving together well-known recycled or salvaged materials.

Her installations, sculptures, and light fixtures inspire deeper consideration on waste and consumption by recycling outside the popularized trifecta of paper, plastic, and aluminum to include fiber, stones, wires, and gems - continuing a 30-year exploration of ideas surrounding regeneration and innovation.

“I live in the collaborative space of ideas, conception, and construction. My process with materials is focus on found objects integrated into conceptual art-making, inspiring me by all connections and contributions.”

Striving for connectivity of all forms, the structures hold a syncopated, vibrant rhythm that escalates in natural order, transcending utility and welcoming viewers to peer and examine the combination of textures that resolve in a gritty aesthetic which arises from the challenge of creation. The entangled materials that shape her structures communicate breathing energy that contains a neither male nor female but human desire to live.

“I am both humbled and amazed at the regenerative power of life. Through recycling, we have blessed opportunities to reshape things that are perceived as decay, into replenished mysteries of beauty."

Slivinski has several commissioned public art installations throughout Chicago, including the logan state park “hedgerow” in Grant Park, “Natural Rhythm” in Saint Cloud, MN, The Longhouse Collection in New York, NY; and “Ancestral Throne” in Bordeaux, France. In 2012, CS Interiors Magazine named Slivinski “Best Lighting Designer” in Chicago.

Slivinski holds a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Northwester Illinois University. In 2017, she was the American to create an installation for the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba as part of “Arte y Moda”. Throughout 2018 and 2019, Slivinski was invited to be an artist in residence at EXPO CHICAGO and has since exhibited her work in Miami at Art Basel, Fusion MIA, and SCOPE fairs all over the world. She has been featured in solo exhibitions located in New York City, NY; Chicago, IL; Bordeaux, France; and Reading, PA.

Her work has been featured in Art in America, New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Chicago Interiors, and Luxe Magazine.

You can also catch on of Slivinski’s magnificent sculptures outside of N’Namdi Contemporary Fine Art Miami.

Lucy currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.