Lucine Kaplan (b.1996): Lucine Kaplan (b. 1996) is an American fiber artist from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who draws with pantyhose. Instead of using paint or pencil, she tears, stretches, layers, and attaches nylon stockings to handmade hook canvases, transforming an everyday undergarment into intricate, two dimensional works of art.

Kaplan began developing her signature technique in 2013. Self taught in this original process, she explores the unusual possibilities of hosiery: its transparency creates layers of color, its elasticity shapes lines, and its runs and tears become marks within the composition. One person's snag that might send a pair of stockings into the trash becomes the starting point for Lucine's artwork.

Her materials come from women, drag queens, dancers, and hosiery companies across the United States. These donations connect her work to the people who wear the garments and the lives they have moved through. Something once worn close to the body takes on a second life as art, carrying associations with identity, performance, femininity, and personal history.

Inspired by womanhood and the history of hosiery, Kaplan is drawn to a garment designed to smooth, shape, conceal, and reveal the body. By pulling it apart and giving it a new form, she explores beauty standards, bodily memory, and the expectations placed on women. The material is both her artistic medium and part of the story.

Lucine is an alumnus of Naropa University's BA Visual Art program founded by Alex Grey (whom she independently studied with). Boasting her dynamic portfolio showcased in nearly 100 exhibitions globally, including award-winning showcases (first in shows and categories).

Featured in prominent exhibits such as Denver Art Museum (2022), LA Art Show (2022), Basel House (2021), and Aqua Art Miami (2019). Her art has graced prominent locales such as NYC, Miami, Denver, Philadelphia, LA, and London.