Shug Lockett's collages combine imagery from a variety of sources with hand painted papers. Many of the pieces bring a message from the past by combining historical documents and photographs into the contemporary setting of collage. Others include musical notes and imagery while some simply relate to the landscape displaying barns, foliage, red clay and other organic forms.

 Each collage is created from papers that are hand painted with fluid acrylic paint prior to assembly. Photographic images, stamps, stencils and monoprinted papers are often incorporated in the collage as well. Most of the initial colors used are transparent so as the layering process begins, the colors fuse together and make interesting combinations of their own. There can be as many as 8 – 10 layers or as few as two in the final piece.

Biography

Shug is a Charlotte native but spent 14 years living in Hong Kong, Baton Rouge and New Orleans, LA.  She is a graduate of Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill.  After a short banking career, she returned to art and has since studied at LSU and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art. She has been an Affiliate Artist at the McColl Center for Visual Art and maintains a working studio in the historic South End.