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Mara De Luca was born to Italian parents in Washington, D.C. Early art education took place in D.C. museums, where she developed a love of European painting and a fascination with American post-war Abstraction. Summer trips to Italy provided a fill of Italian Renaissance painting– rich with clouds, light, and illumination. De Luca’s work today extends the celebration of illusionism, romanticism, and the sublime with a deeply informed response to modernist painting. De Luca received an MFA from CalArts, Los Angeles, and a BA from Columbia University, NY. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and is included in collections including the Buck Collection at UC Irvine, Alexander Plaza Berlin, Germany; New York Medical College, New York. She has been reviewed in Artforum, Cultured Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and Artweek LA. De Luca is a recipient of the 2019 California Community Foundation Fellowship. She has taught Painting at UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Davis and UC Riverside. Based in Los Angeles for over two decades, De Luca now lives and works in New York. |
