Luke Painter, Fountain, 2020, screenprint, 14 x 10 in., unframed

Luke Painter’s drawing practice explores the relationships between historical and contemporary design and art movements by creating formal, narrative, and tangential connections between them. He is interested in the origins of particular historical styles and the ways they are co-opted and adapted in cyclical trends and by ideological movements. Recent exhibitions of his work include: The Teasers and the Tormentors at Harbourfront Centre (solo 2018); Modern Wand at Cambridge Galleries (solo 2017); The Teasers and the Tormentors at Galerie Clark in Montreal (solo 2016); Ways of Something at the Whitney Museum of American Art (group 2016); and Five Years of Contemporary Canadian Drawing at the Sudbury Art Gallery (group 2016). Luke has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council and was nominated for the K.M. Hunter Award in the Visual Arts through the Ontario Arts Council. His work has been reviewed by Canadian Art, Border Crossings, The Globe and Mail and was included in Carte Blanche Vol 2 – Painting, a national survey of Canadian painters. Luke is an Associate Professor at OCAD University in Toronto.