Charlie Lucas was born in 1951 in Birmingham Alabama. He
ran away from home when he was a teenager and learned to
support himself as a construction worker, truck driver, and
danyman. He began making scrap metal scrupture while
recovering from a back injury. He bends, welds, and twists
aluminum wire ihto larger than life people and animals. For
these assembleges he has been coined the "Tin Man" in the
art world. Charlie is also a painter. His semiabstract
paintings on board and canvas are usually intended to
deliver messages. Charlie's large sculpture is his most
important work, but if a collector has neither the money nor
the appropriate space for it, his paintings are worth
consideration. Charlie has been included in many exhibitions
for example :Another Face of the Diamond: Pathways through
the Black Atlantic South" in New York City in 1988 and
"Passionate Visions of the American South" New Orleans
Museum of Art in 1993. In 1996 there was a one-person
exhibtion of his art at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art.
His work is included in the permanent collections of
Birmingham Museum of Art, the Morris Museum of Art, the
Rockford Art Museum, the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, the
New Orleans Museum of Art, and the St. James Place Folk Art
Museum.
Making Friends 26 x 16 framed $800
