"Auto-Brightness" Painting

Lucía Ares (Gijón, 1987) is an asturian visual artist based in Madrid. Her artistic practice arises from the everyday observation of human behavior and the social dynamics that are manifested in gestures, relationships, and shared spaces.

Her work focuses on the representation of seemingly ordinary scenes which, through drawing and painting, become devices for visual analysis of identity, social interaction, and the construction of the collective.

Interested in approaches close to social anthropology, she uses the image as a tool to record, interpret, and reformulate situations linked to contemporary experience.

Ares starts from direct observation, the collection of visual references, and the study of specific social contexts, which she later reworks in the pictorial process.

Her works maintain a balance between recognizable figuration and a formal synthesis that emphasizes composition, an the gesture and the visual structure, understanding painting as a space for reflection where perception, memory, and experience are articulated.

She graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2010), specializing in the category of painting. Her work has been exhibited in numerous spaces in Spain and Italy and has received recognitions in contemporary art competitions, including the 2nd Prize for Young Creators of the Community of Madrid, First and Second Prize at FICM, Second Prize at the Club De Creatividad, Silver at the Art Director Club of European Awards, as well as selections and finalist positions in international calls such as the Combat Prize and the BMW Painting Prize.