If Lucy Kim‘s sculptural paintings have a message, it’s don’t believe what you see. They fool the eye, scramble assumptions. For instance, she made a resin cast of the pattern of sand at low tide on King’s Beach in Lynn, then painted its undulant grooves with the purple and white patterns of Phalaenopsis orchids.
The artist was still experimenting in late April, as she geared up for “Pigment Spells,” a solo exhibition opening May 15 at Praise Shadows Art Gallery. “These are going to be wet paintings when they get delivered,” she said...
