Painting
A Contemporary Olympia
Following a long art historical trend of the reclining nude, A Contemporary Olympia is my personal take on the genre. I have positioned myself in dialogue with artists such as Titian, Manet, and Cézanne while altering the concept to speak to my... More
Painting
Antediluvian Transmission from Mars (Hieroglyphics Embedded in Stellar Parallax)
Acrylic on canvas.
Painting
Aphrodite Pandemos
This work, Aphrodite Pandemos, is part of my thesis which engages the Western Canon for the purpose of rearticulating its aesthetics to create my own (queer) visual language. This painting references works by Ingres, Cabanel, and Bouguereau and... More
Painting
Hymn to Hera (Sisters Dance)
A found family is something most queer people see as essential to surviving in a queerphobic world; it is something that gives community, support, and joy, among other things. It is not something that I have, however. This painting is my idyll — my... More
Painting
Interior Study 1
From Stacy Athena May's series exploring the narrative potential of architectural spaces.
Painting
Interior Study 2
From Stacy Athena May's series exploring the narrative potential of architectural spaces.
Painting
Interior Study 3
From Stacy Athena May's series exploring the narrative potential of architectural spaces.
Painting
Madness Lurks in the Temple of Apollo
This work explores the figure as a formal element; a vessel for line, colour, and shape. Ground and foreground undulate and bleed into one another in harmonious cacophony.
Painting
Pillars of Creation
This work remixes two paintings by Carolus-Duran and Amaury-Duval depicting Greek goddesses. I have instead rendered these goddesses as transgender women in order to elevate trans people, and trans bodies, to the realm of the mythic and the... More
Work by
Stacy Lucibello aka. Stacy Athena May
Drawing & Painting
“Art is my form of communication and I am developing, through the lexicon of shape, line, and colour, a new visual language. This language is one of transition — and fundamentally queer. It is...” [More]