Rhoda has led an adventurous and eclectic life.
She is a Southerner who spent a decade living in New York City. She worked as a spinner in a cotton mill, and as Assistant Art Director of the cult classic movie Swamp Thing.
At the age of seven, Rhoda purchased a plastic "Diana" camera for fifty cents and ten Bazooka bubblegum wrappers and began capturing images. At seventeen, she was awarded a full college scholarship as the national winner of an essay competition. After earning her BA in Filmmaking and her Master of Media Arts degrees, she worked in the photography, television and film industries.
Rhoda's photography has a distinctive style, with images that are emotionally evocative yet often stark in their simplicity. She has an eye and penchant for capturing body language, gestures, and fleeting facial expressions to render a mood in her portraits. This is particularly seen in her images of children.
Her Polaroid Manipulations--"Painterly Photography" -- are notable in the field, with the use of a rare close-up lens adapter on the SX-70 camera. Some of her favorite subjects for this unique medium are details of machinery parts, plants, and other textural objects.
Rhoda is an award-winning photographer and writer. A gifted painter, she uses oils on wood to paint both representational and abstract artworks. Collecting elements from nature -- pebbles, sea glass and bean pods -- she crafts her artisan work.
Rhoda Neal Luck lives and works in the Triangle area of North Carolina, but regularly visits St Croix, USVI. She has a daughter, Lydia, and a son, James. Her current project is constructing BLOCK MOBILES from the one-inch cubes on which she paints.
She is a Southerner who spent a decade living in New York City. She worked as a spinner in a cotton mill, and as Assistant Art Director of the cult classic movie Swamp Thing.
At the age of seven, Rhoda purchased a plastic "Diana" camera for fifty cents and ten Bazooka bubblegum wrappers and began capturing images. At seventeen, she was awarded a full college scholarship as the national winner of an essay competition. After earning her BA in Filmmaking and her Master of Media Arts degrees, she worked in the photography, television and film industries.
Rhoda's photography has a distinctive style, with images that are emotionally evocative yet often stark in their simplicity. She has an eye and penchant for capturing body language, gestures, and fleeting facial expressions to render a mood in her portraits. This is particularly seen in her images of children.
Her Polaroid Manipulations--"Painterly Photography" -- are notable in the field, with the use of a rare close-up lens adapter on the SX-70 camera. Some of her favorite subjects for this unique medium are details of machinery parts, plants, and other textural objects.
Rhoda is an award-winning photographer and writer. A gifted painter, she uses oils on wood to paint both representational and abstract artworks. Collecting elements from nature -- pebbles, sea glass and bean pods -- she crafts her artisan work.
Rhoda Neal Luck lives and works in the Triangle area of North Carolina, but regularly visits St Croix, USVI. She has a daughter, Lydia, and a son, James. Her current project is constructing BLOCK MOBILES from the one-inch cubes on which she paints.
