Lucia DeChino
Color Unfolding

May 2 — June 2, 2026
Opening Reception
Friday, May 8, from 6:00–7:30 PM

New Jersey–based artist Lucia DeChino brings a multifaceted background to her work.
She holds both a Bachelor and Master of Arts from Kean University, pursued
postgraduate studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and trained at the
Gemological Institute of America. She also studied silversmithing with master craftsman Alan Place, experiences that sharpened her eye for detail, form, and material.

DeChino began her career teaching art before moving into jewelry design, where her
work achieved national recognition—appearing on the cover of Vogue Magazine for
Vera Wang and featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Time Magazine, and in Calvin Klein’s
collections. After years of success in the fashion world, she returned to painting,
exploring still life, nudes, portraiture, and eventually dog portraits by popular request.
Her current work marks a return to abstract, nonobjective painting, where bold color
relationships form the core of her visual language. In her series Going with the Flow,
DeChino uses intense color contrasts, intersecting black lines, and geometric marks to
represent life’s diversions, challenges, and rediscovered paths. Her newer abstracted
landscapes transform real scenes into compositions of shape, color, and emotional
resonance.

For DeChino, color is not just expressive—it is structural. It defines space, creates
depth, and shapes the emotional architecture of each piece.