Luc Grenier
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is an interdisciplinary artist working in Boston with a variety of art media: print and publishing, film and video, media arts, and performance. He has earned two degrees from Tufts University and the SMFA where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in International Literary and Visual Studies, and a BFA in Studio Art. He is a recipient of the Schwartz-Paddock Fellowship of Visual and Performing Arts, and his thesis project for the Department of ILCS at Tufts Univeristy was awarded Highest Thesis Honors. Since 2022, He has exhibited work in the SoWA Art + Design district's Bromfield Gallery, participated in showings at the Boston Art Book Fair, and NOVA Interdisciplinary Art Festival at the New England Conservatory among other venues.

Grenier's primary concern is communication using time and its palpable subjectivity in how it's experienced through the sequencing inherent to a diverse set of mediums while exploring lexicons of intimacy, honesty, and the sharing of secrets. Given contemporary social conditions that make creating distributable media akin to sending a message into an algorithmic sea, Grenier seeks to make art within the context of this cultural capacity to engage with media in a form familiar to the moment.

Design Portfolio



07 Capacity of Thermochromic Pigments as Means for Animated Sequences
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2023_05-09
RESEARCH - GRAPHIC ARTS - VIDEO
Independent Research funded by Tufts University Summer Scholars Program and the Schwartz-Paddock Fellowship culminating in a presentation at the Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium. This research assesses the abilities of thermochromic pigments—pigments which shift color when exposed to heat —to draw direct parallels between print and video media by serving as a tool for animation. This seldom-utilized medium for the printing of images carries a unique capacity for examining this  intersection of mediums because of its ability to transform over time. A singular printed frame can be incorporated into animation in three unique ways: in its cooled, unaltered appearance; in its heated, transformed state; and by recording the process of its changing through a short video clip.






3D/GRAPHICS/VIDEO/PERFORMANCE/RESEARCH/WEB/SOUND