- Ouroborosity: From Earthly Snakes to Infinity
- Marne Lucas
- October 16 - November 20, 2025
- Living Studios Gallery
- Corvallis, Oregon
Living Studios is thrilled to welcome Portland - based artist and end of life doula, Marne Lucas to the gallery for their exhibition, Ouroborosity: From Earthly Snakes to Infinity. We hope you can join us on Thursday, October 16 from 4-6 to see the work and meet the artist!
Marne will share work that provides insight on impermanence, life force energies, and the transmundane, including infrared thermal video stills, collage, and cast brass and iron sculptures made in residence at Arts?Industry, a program of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center as a sculptural iteration of The Bardo Project.
Marne Lucas (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and end of life doula (EOLD) working at the intersection of art, science, and health, using conceptual overlaps: life’s energy, the body, and mortality, in social practice investigations. Her long-term projects are informed by her community around her. An infrared thermal video pioneer since 1995, Lucas uses heat-sensitive imaging technology to illuminate the fragility of human life cycles. The Bardo Project explores creativity as a form of spiritual care in collaborations with terminally ill artists nationwide to establish their legacy. Lucas received EOLD training at INELDA under Henry Fersko Weiss, a role that supports the dying and their families. Lucas has collaborated with artists, choreographers, dancers, musicians, activist groups, sex workers, health care and LGBTQIA non-profits, and the public at large. She has exhibited worldwide: The Brand Library (L.A.), PICA (OR), Fremantle Arts Centre (Perth, AU), Peltz Gallery (London UK), and her IRT work appeared at FEMeeting 2025 Windsor, CAD (2024), “Synthetic Becoming” Byrno, CR (2022), ‘Taboo-Transgression-Technology in Art & Science’ Vienna online (2020), ‘Transitional States: Hormones at the Crossroads of Art & Science’ (2018). Marne has received funding from RACC (Portland, OR), the LMCC (NYC), the Oregon Arts Commission, and has participated in a 2025 Playa Summerlake (OR) residency, and an Arts/Industry artist residency (2016, Foundry, Pottery Divisions) at the Kohler Co. (Wisconsin). Her work is in collections of Portland Art Museum, The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, and the Visual Chronicle of Portland, RACC. www.marnelucas.com
Marne’s work at Living Studios will coincide with the End of Life Resource Fair hosted by Heart of the Valley End of Life Community on November 1 in Corvallis where she will talk about making meaning at the end of life.