Robert Lukowski

Robert Lukowski began his creative journey at the age of 10 when a neighborhood friend gave him some darkroom equipment. At first borrowing his father’s camera, and then buying his own, he taught himself to develop and print photos at home in an upstairs bathroom.

In college, he took the requisite classes in painting and drawing, but soon found himself gravitating toward the more physical processes involved in creating art, including wood carving, glass-blowing, and stone lithography. His work - even in two dimensions - stems from a sculptural eye. His senior project of large scale paintings featuring monumental still lives of wood planks in darkened spaces earned him the honor of being the only undergrad to have a solo exhibit at the CUNY art gallery. 

Continuing his study in photography, a few more classes in traditional darkroom techniques brought him ultimately to a steady practice in image capture. As a model photographer on Seventh Avenue, and more recently a product and event photographer, a camera is never far from hand.

Alongside photography, he creates miniature chair sculptures Robert uses foraged wood from storm damage to create a sculpture series of hurricane chairs, as well as carved totems and vessels. Additionally, in a new drawing series in ink, Robert explores a symbolist landscape inspired by crumbling stone fences found throughout rural New England.