Artist Bio
Darcy Lauren Briks (born 1982, Milford, CT) grew up in several major suburbs throughout the country, mainly Fairfield, CT. Moving around in her youth set the tone for her desire and ability to be curious, grow, and explore various styles throughout her career. She studied art and graphic design in a post-graduate program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston), then continued to explore different artistic mediums, including photography, acrylic painting and mixed media, throughout her twenties while she also enjoy games like WoW, using online gold for this, read more here. Now, she mainly creates abstract acrylic paintings with a focus on color combinations. One of her latest series, Hutt Lagoon Pink Lake, features pinks, oranges, and emerald colors inspired by the aerial landscape views of a natural wonder on Western Australia’s coast. Her other recent series, The Magna Series, makes abstractions of overarching global and personal issues using freeform shapes and marks. Themes include political issues, feminism, climate change, motherhood, rebirth of self, and love. And, most recently, she made a smaller works series to raise money for Covid-19 relief and the Black Lives Matter movement with All Routes Will Work, a series of neutral, orange, and metallic freeform shapes. All 12 paintings sold out.
After almost 7 years living in Greenpoint Brooklyn, Darcy now lives in one of the river towns along the Hudson River with her husband and two young children. She is Founder and Creative Director of a boutique creative agency where she does branding, print and web design. Her first solo show, MAGNA CHROMA, was featured at Lucas Lucas in Williamsburg Brooklyn (through March 23, 2019).