Stephan by Attila Richard Lukacs

Attila Richard Lukacs was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1962. He attended the Emily Carr College of Art and graduated with Honours in 1985. He subsequently moved to Berlin where he worked as an artist for ten years before moving to New York and then Hawaii. He now resides in Vancouver, BC.

He is known for his work with oil paint, tar, feathers, and gold leaf, and his subject matter often includes nude and semi-nude skinheads, homosexuality, sadomasochism, and fascistic symbolism.

Lukacs regularly uses a Polaroid camera as part of his artistic process, using his friends and acquaintances in Berlin, New York, Vancouver and elsewhere as models; taking advantage of the Polaroid's unique characteristics, his painterly sensibility is evident in the rich hues and romantic sensuality of these photographs, which are strikingly similar to the paintings that resulted from them.

His work is in the public collections of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Edmonton Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries, Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Canada Council Art Bank, Museum London, Museum van Hedendaage Kunst, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and in many private collections.