Internal and External Worlds Merge in Kristy Luck’s Atmospheric Paintings

Kristy Luck: Cloud Throat, 2019, oil on linen, 36 by 30 inches; at Philip Martin.
Nature, the body, and the psyche seem to be one in Kristy Luck’s paintings, but there is nothing saccharine or overtly mystical about her unifying vision. The Los Angeles–based artist depicts fields of color pulsing with the vitality of pressures countering one another and then yielding, as entities appear to emerge, merge, and change. Her works evoke generative and transformative processes that are equ