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Cathy Della Lucia

Boston, Massachusetts

Table of Contents is a sculptural installation in a gallery space featuring various hand tools, biomorphic wooden forms, and objects placed on tiered chunky white shelves

Table of Contents

2025

Fridge Landscape 1 is a wall sculpture composed of interlocking wooden forms in biomorphic shapes evoking stylized hands, fingers and piano keys. In two pieces, the texture of ground beef and ramen are etched into wood surface.

Fridge Landscape 1

2024

Trolling (blue raz) is a wall sculpture composed of interlocking wooden forms in biomorphic shapes, with metal hardware elements including a silver tube and a black pull bar.

Trolling (blue raz)

2024

Grocery Landscape is a colorful abstract wall sculpture composed of interconnected, irregularly shaped wooden forms in yellow, pink, red, beige, green, and brown tones, with utilitarian styled accents of metal.

Grocery Landscape

2024

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Cathy Della Lucia

Cathy Della Lucia looks directly at camera in workshop with clamps and tools on the wall, with her hands in pockets. She is a woman with Korean heritage and long dark hair wearing a white t-shirt and dark jeans.

Cathy Della Lucia (b. South Korea) is a sculptor working in Boston, MA. She creates multi-part sculptures from wood, ceramic, and digitally fabricated materials that are designed to come apart. Her work explores modularity and the relationship between the body and objects such as tools, toys, and weapons. Her work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine and Boston Art Review, and her recent exhibitions include the 808 Gallery at Boston University, Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State University, Overlap Gallery (Newport, RI), Radial Gallery at the University of Dayton (OH), Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Boston, MA / Los Angeles, CA). She has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and The Blue House (Dayton, OH). Cathy holds a BA in Studio Art from Xavier University and an MFA in Sculpture from Boston University. She is currently Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Boston College, where she teaches sculpture and 3D design.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2025

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“ I’m drawn to the universal familiarity of wood and clay histories in domestic spaces and their association with objects of protection, consumption, ritual, play, and violence. These materials can become both structure and skin, container and contained.”