Emily Brett Lukens: Untitled Drawing, 2002, acrylic, collage, rubbing, encaustic, 18" x 17" x 1"

About:

My work is about texture. I use resources from nature to create rubbings on thin papers. I use these images to collage and paint mixed media works that represent close-up and far away views of the earth. In my work, time is an element, and I am interested in reconfiguring the ancient, bringing it into a contemporary context. The non-representational images are made by combining oil paint stick, acrylic, graphite and sand. I generally produce 4 to 8 images related to one subject. When exhibited the assemblages reinforce a common theme.

Bio:

Emily Brett Lukens is a painter and printmaker living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In her prints and mixed media works on paper she uses short staccato marks to create tension and texture, evoking the surfaces and organic forms found in nature.
She often adopts the mark making of nature, marks such as tree rings that may appear random and are not always symmetrical, and takes them a step further, manipulating the medium to create her own images. Other works reference patterns or surfaces in the environment.
After graduating with a MFA from the U of PA, Brett Lukens taught Printmaking at the Pennsylvania of the Fine Arts, U of PA graduate school of Fine Arts, and Moore College of Art and Design. At Bucks County Community College she taught Painting, Drawing, Color Theory and Design. Currently, she is teaching drawing and painting at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.
Her work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Art Museum, The Kellogg Center, Michigan State University, West Chester State College, corporate and private collections. She has been exhibiting her work since the 1980's.

www.emilybrettlukens.com