Monique Luck creates soulful and wonderfully lyrical images in mixed media. Her sense of color and tone is impeccable as she models the features of figures and natural forms using fragments of found paper. Luck is a self-taught artist, who is very active in the art world and in her community. She has exhibited frequently around the East Coast.

Her pieces are deeply personal. Monique uses color to express her feelings. "Regardless if I use paint, paper, or another media, color is how I connect to any piece I create," she explains, "Each piece defines a moment and a memory. Each piece represents another step in my life." While the process of creating her artwork is deeply personal, the feelings her collages express back to viewers are feelings they can internalize too and relate back to their own lives. "Sometimes my favorite pieces are those created during the hardest personal times. I create my art to help me get through, and somehow, it always does."

Currently Monique works as a partner for Kollman Simone Designs, a company that she and her business partner, artist Leslie Ansley, started to allow the creation of large murals for schools and businesses. She worked with the Sprout Public Art Program to create two large public murals. One mural which resides permanently in Squirrel Hill, was featured on the PBS Documentary, "It's the Neighborhoods." Recently she completed a mural for Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 60th Anniversary Celebration. She is excited to receive a grant from the Multi Cultural Arts Initiative to create a public mural in Pittsburgh honoring the late August Wilson.

In 2006, Monique was chosen to receive one of the emerging artist scholarships for the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was also honored to be chosen as one of the 25 honorees of the Woman and Girls Foundation's celebration of Women in the Material World on December 8, 2006 at the Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh. In September 2007 she was awarded first place at the Art on Main Fine Art and Master Craft Festival in Fort Mill, South Carolina. She was privileged to receive the Carol Dixon Award in the fine art category for her mixed media collage "I See My Daughters" . Please visit her upcoming solo exhibit in the Mezzanine Gallery in Butler, PA.

Monique continues to try new techniques and ideas to further develop her style and to fulfill her passion for creating.

Affiliations:
Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators