Lucero Gonzalez Jameson

Lucero Gonzalez Jameson was born in Mexico City and now lives and works in New York City, where she moved in the early 1980s. While raising a young family in Mexico City, psychology fascinated her for years. When this pursuit ran its course, she turned her attention to philosophy, where a lifelong passion gripped her. She understood that life is tragic, that questions pertaining to humanity as a whole are a cause of concern for the individual beyond his or her own grievances. Lucero’s curiosity turned toward the inquiry abiding in that “no-mans-land” between theology and science, whose core questions invoke metaphysics and the human condition. Lucero studied at La Esmeralda, the Academy where muralists Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros all began. A turning point came when she studied with Robin Bond, a British artist teaching at Tacubaya in Mexico City. It was then that she felt truly at ease. Bond had been the assistant to A. S.Neil, founder of Sumemrhill-- a radical school established 1921 in Britain. Lucero poured forth what Bond sought: the beauty of a free stroke, an unmediated action—spontaneity-- genuine, rooted creativity. From then on she has dedicated her life to painting, creating luminous canvases that explore the human condition.