My work, in the massing of color and the use of pattern, is indebted to Matisse, Bonnard , Milton Avery and Jacob Lawrence . Collage is a very forgiving medium. I lay it down, look at it, and move it around. In my work, I wish to simplify and abstract my experience of an activity in a specific place. Originally, I was inspired by Dorothea Rockburne's folded paper work.
Buttons are commonplace but evoke individual memories and associations.
My button collages become mapped landscapes or metaphors for larger social concerns. In The Borough Series, the buttons stand for the populations of New York City. Pouch Lucille Nurkse in Her Studio Lucille Nurkse has shown extensively within the United States including a solo exhibition with the New York Graphic Arts Council in 1997. Lucille Nurkse has studied with Andy Reiss, Simon Dinnerstein, Tim Stocco and Wang Chi-Yuan. Usually, this process happens in the privacy of the artist's or artisan's studio.