Artist Statement
Her work centers listening as both method and material, positioning the body as an instrument of attunement within relational fields of land and collective memory. Deeply informed by Butoh, her performance practice approaches the body as a porous threshold through which the animate world becomes perceptible. Movement functions not as representation, but as embodiment, allowing psychic, ecological, ancestral, and atmospheric forces to surface through physical form. Drawing from humanity’s long history of personifying unseen energies and elemental forces, Lucey-Brzoza seeks contemporary manifestations of animacy that speak to present conditions. Through
She explores sanctuary, ritual, queer sacredness, identity, and vulnerability as pathways to resilience, creating conditions where presence becomes generative and belonging emerges through lived encounter.
Engaging site as a living archive, she works through non-extractive, site-responsive practices that attend to land, ecology, and layered histories. Through duration and restraint, her work asks how place becomes ancestral and how relational awareness might reshape belonging in a time of ecological precarity and social fragmentation.
She believes resilience is born from empathy for shared experience and the faith that we are not alone. When we cradle this knowing, we are whole, and so is the world we create.
Biography
An American of Northern European ancestry, Lucey-Brzoza came of age within the cultural ambiguities common around her, simultaneously rooted and unrooted, inheriting histories tied to distant places while searching for connection within the landscapes of the present. Her experience of queerness became an equally important site of inquiry, opening questions around transformation, liminality, and its entwinement with cosmic nature. Together, these experiences fostered an enduring interest in alternative cosmologies, ancestral worldviews, and the human impulse to personify, ritualize, and enter into relationship with the forces that animate life.
Extensive travel throughout North America and abroad, alongside years of meditation, movement practice, and solitary wandering, deepened her engagement with questions of forces that shape us, perception, and the conditions through which belonging emerges. Equally formative was her relationship with her mother, an artist who encouraged an attentiveness to the subtle dimensions of everyday life and a capacity to perceive the world as alive, expressive, and relational.
Lucey-Brzoza's trajectory has moved fluidly between art, design, film, and community-building. She is the founder of Vivid Oblivion, an
interdisciplinary arts space dedicated to experimental performance, dance, and creative inquiry, and has developed a body of work informed by a lifelong search for connection between self, lineage, landscape, and the larger living systems of which they are a part.
Her work has been featured by ALCOVA Miami, Mobius Artists Group, and Gestalten. She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Alongside her art practice, she has built a two-decade career in branding design. She runs a design studio and product line.
Contact
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