Charlie Lucas (b. 1951) ran away from his home in Birmingham, Alabama as a teenager, supporting himself with a assortment of jobs -- truck driver, handyman, construction worker. He now lives with his wife Annie who is also an artist, in the town of Pink Lily, Alabama. Their house is easily recognizable by the dozens of metal creatures populating the yard. Charlie began making his sculptures of larger than life people and animals while recovering from a back injury. He welds, bends and twists aluminum wire and scrap metal and paints on boards. He is widely collected and shown by galleries across the country. His work is in the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and several other museums across the nation. He has been included in many exhibitions, including a one-man show of his work at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art in 1996, and Souls Grown Deep: African-American Vernacular Art of the South at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta in the summer of 1996.

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