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Stevon Lucero
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Art for Life
By C.J. Janovy
Originally published by ©Westword 4-29-1999
The television is on, transmitting images from the Columbine High School shooting into the front room of the Lucero studios, at West 33rd and Tejon. The walls are covered with the blood reds, dusty blues and luminous golds of Stevon Lucero's and Arlette Lucero's artwork. Even after Arlette turns off the TV, she sees the connection between the electronic pictures from the other side of town and the paintings on her wall.
Teaching Spirituality through Art
By Toni Fresquez
Published by El Semanario ©February 13, 1997
When his career as an artist began, Lucero decided that whatever he decided to do in life, he would be the best at it. “One of the thing's that I was dealing with when I became an artist, as a young Chicano, you would look and never see ‘us,' we are marginal people – it's a white man's culture,” explained Lucero. “And I said whatever I do, I'm going to try to be so good at that, so I could break those barriers.
Lucero Paints Powerful New Visualizations
Published in El Semanario ©May 2, 1996
In human psychology and in contemporary art, there is an area between the purely abstract and the purely realistic. This is the area in which Denver artist Stevon Lucero maneuvers, exploring the edges of his subconscious mind where thought begins to intrude on the real world. Out of images seen in dreams, visions and separate reality experiences, Lucero creates powerful painted metaphors
Museo Provides Showcase for Lucero's Challenge to Viewer
By Mary Voelz
Published by The Rocky Mountain News ©June 9, 1996
Not quite surreal, not quite real, this is what artist Stevon Lucero calls meta-realism, his personal shorthand for the words metaphysical, fantastic and realism.
Yet Lucero, in his push to not be pigeonholed, as he puts it, cannot leave some of the mythology and symbolism behind. Religion and spirituality are woven through the fabric of his work like the most persistent magic realism, even as the figures melt into a Dali-esque wash.
Greeley Exhibit Showcases Culture
Rocky Mountain News ©April 25, 1993
The art of Stevon Lucero, a prolific professional artist whose credits include a mural at the recent Aztec exhibit at the Denver Museum of Natural History, is currently on exhibit at Michener Library on the UNC campus in Greeley. Also on display are the works of University of Northern Colorado faculty members Roberto Cordova and Genie Canales.
Background for Aztec display is a work of art all by itself
Steven Rosen; Denver Post Art Critic
Published in the Denver Post ©August 18, 1992
By the time the exhibit "Aztec: The World of Moctezuma" opens Sept. 26 at the Denver Museum of Natural History, Stephen "Stevon" Lucero's monumental mural of a crowded Aztec marketplace will be visual background.
Two Muralists Paint their own Heritage
By Joe B. Verrengia News Science Writer
Published in the Rocky Mountain News © May 6, 1992
In Lucero's mural, farmers have spread their produce on the Aztec market's vast courtyard of hardpacked clay. They squat shoulder-to-shoulder with traders peddling exotic wares from the corners of the empire, as well as barbers, potters, weavers and porters for hire, creating a din that could be heard miles away. Towering above the market are the splendidly geometric twin temples of fire and rain, and beyond them the rugged mountains.
Foothills Show is Three Exhibits in One
By M.S. MASON
Published in the Rocky Mountain News ©January 10, 1993
No art develops in a vacuum. The contemporary paintings of Denver artists Stevon Lucero and Emanuel Martinez in the second show, "Glyphs, Gods, and Heroes," owe a great deal to the cosmology of their Native American ancestors.
Lucero makes bright glyph-like paintings that incorporate the mythology of the ancients with his own mystical visions. They are clean and clear - sharp lines, bright, clean color - and engaging.
Denver to Discover Lost Civilization
By Hal Stoelzle
Published in the Rocky Mountain News © May 6, 1992
Artist Stevon Lucero paints a mural for the Denver Museum of Natural History's exhibit on the Aztecs. Due to open Sept. 26, Aztec: The World of Moctezuma will be the museum's most ambitious project. It also will place the museum squarely in the contentious reassessment of Columbus and the subsequent transformation of the New World.
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