With a career of endless experimentation spanning over twenty years, Shannon Cartier Lucy (b. 1977, Nashville, TN) is one of the most celebrated figurative painters working today.

Raised with a schizophrenic father, Cartier Lucy paints seemingly ordinary and familiar scenes in a realistic style that are also alienating for their surreal details, poses and compositions.

Cartier Lucy infuses her painting with uncanny and impossible situations that become a new normal in her work. The artist is a cantor of the inner world; her practice can be seen as a mirror of a dystopic society, whether intentional or accidental, reflecting a sociocultural landscape filled with hallucinatory and contradictory information.