Lydia Khuri
Expressionist landscape, still-life, and abstract paintings, drawings, and mixed-media work.
Lydia Khuri transforms everyday objects and spaces into their own enigmatic worlds through formal and exploratory processes of art making. Chairs converse as they grow from trees, houses fall into crevices, a collection of fruit ascends to the heavens. The materials themselves delimit both the process and the final world. Works on wood panel can stand up to more addition and subtraction than works on paper. The water-based media Lydia uses also have their own character– gouache brilliant, flat, and sensitive; ink ancient and unforgiving; acrylic a jack of all trades. Together they collaborate and vie until each piece is saturated with its own meaning and harmony of color, line, shape, and illusion of space.
Lydia received her BFA in 1987 from Washington University’s School of Art in St. Louis, Missouri and worked for several years as a picture framer and gilder in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist and a clinical associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Illinois.
