Luba Lukova

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Luba Lukova
Born
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
NationalityAmerican
Known forVisual Art
Websitelukova.net

Luba Lukova is an American visual artist and designer, known for her thought-provoking images and expressive poster designs. Her work has won international acclaim, and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[1] Denver Art Museum, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.[2]

Biography[]

Lukova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia.[3] She moved to the United States in 1991, after traveling to participate in the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition; shortly thereafter, she was hired by the New York Times Book Review and established her studio in New York City.[4] Lukova's work is exhibited around the world and has won many awards including: Grand Prix Savignac at the International Poster Salon in Paris, ICOGRADA Excellence Award, and Reisman Foundation Award. She holds an honorary doctoral degree from the Art Institute of Boston.

Work[]

Lukova is known for using bold contrasts, visual metaphors, and highly focused concepts to create images that take "only seconds to grasp meaning."[2] Stylistically, her work has been compared to that of German Expressionists, Escher,[5] and Picasso,[2] and she cites inspiration from Goya, Rembrandt, Käthe Kollwitz, folk art, and Chekov. Her art incorporates vivid colors, simplified figures and hand-rendered typography, and frequently comments on social issues including income inequality, censorship, corruption, and environmental conditions. "Her seemingly simple, two- or three-color images carry the emotive power of expressionist wood engravings [...] Lukova's vocabulary is the human body, stretched, deformed, twisted gracefully and grotesquely." These themes are prominent in her Social Justice 2008 series of posters, as well as works for Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian organizations, universities, Broadway productions, non-profit organizations, Shakespeare plays, choreographers, and the War Resisters League.[2][6]

Exhibitions[]

Selected Solo Exhibitions[]

  • Luba Lukova: Designing Justice, Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), 2017
  • Graphic Guts: The Art of Luba Lukova, Glassel Gallery, LSU School of Art, 2015[7]
  • Graphic Guts, Gold Coast Arts Center, Great Neck, NY, 2015[8]
  • I Have a Dream, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 2012[9]
  • Social Justice and Other Works, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, 2009[10]
  • Umbrellas, Social Justice & More, La Galleria at LaMaMa, New York, 2009[11]
  • Umbrellas, Social Justice & More: Two Exhibitions by Luba Lukova, The Art Institute of Boston and Cambridge, MA, 2008[12]
  • The Printed Woman, an installation with prints by Luba Lukova, La Galleria at LaMaMa, New York, 2001

References[]

  1. ^ "Modern Women / Women Artists in the Online Collection". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Foster, John (2006). New Masters of Poster Design: Poster Design for the Next Century. United States of America: Rockport Publishers. pp. 116–123. ISBN 1-59253-222-5.
  3. ^ Gomez-Palacio; Vit, Bryony; Armin (2008). Women of design: influence and inspiration from the original trailblazers to the new groundbreakers. Cincinnati, Ohio: HOW Books. pp. 114–116. ISBN 1600610854.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Palacio, Bryony Gomez; Vit, Armin (2011-12-01). "Luba Lukova". Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design. Rockport Publishers. ISBN 9781592537426.
  5. ^ Heller, Steven (1 March 2004). "Separated at Birth: Lifting Luba Lukova". Print. 58 (2): 16.
  6. ^ Rue, Ella (June 2010). "An interview with Luba Lukova". Designer. 35 (2): 16–21. ISSN 1549-9235.
  7. ^ "Graphic Guts: The Art of Luba Lukova". COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  8. ^ "Gold Coast Arts Center – Luba Lukova: Graphic Guts". greatneckarts.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  9. ^ "Final Week: I Have a Dream, an exhibition by Luba Lukova : Graphic Art News". Graphic Art News. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  10. ^ "Internationally regarded poster artist comes to OSU". News and Publications, Oregon State University. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  11. ^ "Untitled". Print. 63 (3): 16. June 2009.
  12. ^ Ruby, Kristin (Spring 2010). "An Interview with Luba Lukova". Design. 35 (2): 16–21. ISSN 1549-9235.

Further reading[]

  • Brazell, Derek; Davies, Jo. Understanding Illustration. London, 2014. ISBN 978-140817-179-0
  • Lukova, Luba. Social Justice 2008: 12 Posters by Luba Lukova. Clay & Gold, 2008. ISBN 978-0978837204
  • Quinn, Therese; Ploof, John; Hochtritt, Lisa. Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons. Routledge, New York, 2012. ISBN 978-041587-907-1.
  • Roberts, Lucienne. Good: an Introduction to Ethics in Graphic Design. AVA Academia, Worthing, Lausanne, 2006. ISBN 978-294037-314-7.

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