Today she devotes herself fully to the studio. Her creative body of work gives honor to art history while making it new, layering juxtapositions, symbols, and stereotypes that spark dialogue between past and present.
She turns to portraiture and the figure as vessels of narrative, showing how meaning lives in subtle mannerisms, in body language, in the quiet exchange between subject and viewer. The gaze holds power—but so does the silence and stillness of closed eyes. In those moments, reflection, joy, pain, and resonance converge, speaking louder than words ever could.
At the heart of her practice is a call to remember. Lacy evokes nostalgia not just as memory, but as an invitation: to reconsider how we once judged, to weigh what we dismissed, and to see how growth, adversity, and gratitude shift our vision over time.
Her paintings ask viewers to bring their past understandings into dialogue with the present, to honor the lessons in hardship, and to open themselves to the layered stories of others.
Through this exchange, the work becomes more than portraiture—it becomes a mirror, a reckoning, and a reminder of the complexity, subtlety, and shine of melanated life.
