Luz Letts
Bio
Luz Letts is a visual artist graduated from PUCP where she also teaches. She has worked in painting, drawing, engraving, installation, set design and illustration. He has exhibited his work in Peru and abroad. His work is in public and private collections. He also won the Second National Biennial of Lima in 2000, the first prize for painting "Villa de Madrid", in Spain in 1998, and the audience award for the best Foreign Artist at the IV Arawak Drawing Salon in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic in 1996.
She also dedicates time to literature, having been a finalist in several short story contests, and published stories and illustrations since 1989 in various print media in Peru and abroad. She is currently finishing a master's degree in literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica
Statement
Luz Letts' work is supported by a solid knowledge of drawing treated with delicate transparencies of color.
His proposal is a constant search for humanity within a city that is rebuilt day by day. She works in her painting a form of figuration where often the urban metaphor develops a strong dreamlike impression, her characters, paradoxically located in impossible landscapes and everyday situations in a game of contradictions, speak to us of the individual and question their relationship with the environment, the time in which they exist and the role they play in the social space they inhabit.
Her main interest is to understand the nearby and everyday space as a symbol of collective concepts to create visual metaphors that achieve communication links through the immense labyrinth that implies living in a city as contradictory and fascinating as Lima, which is her source of inspiration. Her theme is society and the country where she lives.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
