Marne Lucas is a visual and installation artist using nature, pop-culture and sexuality as fundamental themes in her work. Exploring relationship intimately she has collaborated extensively both behind and in front of the camera, celebrating the eroticism of the body, most notably with Jacob Pander on the award winning, infrared erotic short film 'The Operation' (1995) under the alias Gina Velour.
Her most recognized work explores intimacy with candor in her pin-up style portraits of men & women, artist portraits and her decade long, ongoing self portraiture series titled 'MLSP'.
Also a sex-worker activist, she co-curated the 'Danzine Retrospective' with Teresa Dulce, the founding director of the non-profit organization Danzine as part of 'At The Mercy Of Others: The Politics of Care', which was organized by the 2004-05 Whitney Museum ISP Fellows. She served as co-curator and co-producer to the 'Sex By Sex Worker Film + Video Festivals', which were created (1998) to provide exposure for sex-working artists, support freedom of speech, and advocate female health and safety. Labeled as both a queer and straight artist, she resists categorization but identifies with the queer community.
Currently, Lucas is developing 'Warlord Sun King' with artist Bruce Conkle, a large scale, Eco-Baroque style installation. She is a co-founder of the artist collective Blinglab and RACC grant recipient (2006) for her photographic series of artist portraits.
She loves heavy metal music, nature, bodies of water and building backyard sand box volcanoes with tracheotomy tubing, baking soda & vinegar. She divides her time between Portland, Oregon and New York City.