Emil Lukas: Vanishing Point
With his lens sculptures, lattice paintings, and thread paintings, Easton, PA-based, internationally recognized artist Emil Lukas explores human visual perception, playing with distance, depth, curvature, and, most importantly, light. He isolates and recombines colors via tubes, dots, and filaments. This exhibition will feature new and site-specific work that highlights the potential and limitations of our vision.
Lukas's lattice paintings, built of complementary colors layered with a grid of raised dots, trigger a dynamic focus. As our eyes dart across the surface, they may activate a visual form floating in front of the work-what the artist calls "an event." Similarly, Lukas's thread paintings, made by wrapping variously colored threads around a frame, produce unexpected color changes depending upon viewing distance and angle and a disorienting sense of infinite space.
In the words of the artist, "the works are made in your mind."
