Lucy Kienitz Spence is a contemporary painter from Payson, Arizona. Her work explores perception, memory, and the landscape through layered mark-making and experimental surfaces. She incorporates oil, acrylic, and watercolors suggesting the effects of light and atmosphere.
Artist Statement
"American ICE" was painted in reaction to ICE immigration offices and detention centers. The piece depicts frozen figures trapped within translucent icy forms, symbolizing the dehumanizing conditions faced by detainees held in these “pods.”