About the Artist

Emil Lukas, born in Pittsburgh, PA, lives and works in Stockertown, PA. He holds a BFA from Edinboro University. Emil Lukas's artwork combines simple, known materials with complex, unknowable actions. Gravity, light, chemical reactions, and time are used by the artist to alter simple materials like plaster and paper. Lukas often works on a project not knowing what the final results will be. Importantly, for Lukas, it is when these unpredictable forces exert their influence that a pivotal movement of process occurs. In this way, Lukas constantly tests and expands the parameters of the materials he uses in his art, permitting, as he explains, "marks to make themselves." Lukas has had solo and group exhibitions at the Gallerie Lucien Durand Le Gaillard, Paris, France; Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY; Galerie Schroeder, Cologne, Germany; The Work Space, New York, NY; Delware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; and the Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.