About

Carmen Lugo is a visual artist who works in mixed media, acrylic, and encaustic. A “mark maker” by nature, Carmen’s work often contains bold lines, scratched and obscured words, and a stream-of-consciousness style of painting to explore the space of the canvas. An appreciation of all things fleeting and discarded and gravitation towards evocative color and imagery results in work that often contains themes on impermanence, nature, human nature, and emotion. She equates her process to an “emotional sieve,” sifting through impressions and imagery in the world around her, translating them to canvas.

Carmen currently teaches art classes for FACE (The Friends of Arts, Culture, and Education), is a member of the South Mississippi Art League, and Mississippi Art Colony. 

When not painting Carmen enjoys hiking, reading, collecting insects, and being alone in nature. She currently lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with her husband Vincent, and her two cats, Nina and Penny Lane.