Attila Richard Lukacs

Attila Richard Lukacs (born 1962 in Alberta) is a Canadian artist.

In 1985, Lukacs graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. He moved to Berlin the following year, working at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin. Lukacs moved to New York City in 1996.

Lukacs is best known for paintings that depict exaggerated masculine figures such as gay skinheads and military cadets, depicted nude and in homosexually eroticized clothing: uniforms, skinhead street uniform of tight jeans, Doc Marten boots, braces, and Fred Perry shirts. While his work is occasionally derided as pornographic, acceptance and sale of Lukacs' work has gone well beyond a gay market. His paintings often reference the compositions and themes of David and Caravaggio as well as the compositional devices of the miniature painters and illustrators of India and the Middle East. A more recent series of paintings depict conifer trees, painted in tar on a silver leaf field. The artist now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Film and Video

*"Drawing Out the Demons [videorecording DVD] : A Film About the Artist Attila Richard Lukacs." Directed by David Vaisbord. 2004, Two versions: 48 minutes and 78 minutes, color. Produced by Trish Dolman and Stephanie Symns, Screen Siren Pictures.

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