The Bronx is the subject of Lucas Monaco’s mixed-media drawings on canvas, which are installed on three walls in the South Gallery. Based on extensive research, his work chronicles the borough’s physical landscape, streets, buildings, and elements of the natural topography as shaped by urban planning, development and socio-economic trends. Sampling methods of traditional landscape painting – perspective, objectivity, and representation – he creates a portrait of a place. He is interested in what the land looked liked before it was developed, and how it has changed to evoke the past with the present.

Lucas Monaco created a place-related installation for Parallel Plane: Mapping Corona at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY. He has also exhibited at the Hope Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY; and the Drawing Center, New York, NY. He has had residencies at the Sculpture Space, Utica, NY; and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. More information at www.lucasmonaco.com.