About Me
During the day, I design custom cakes at Whipped Bakeshop, the award-winning Fishtown bakery I founded in 2009 with my husband Brennen. At night, I can often be found in my home studio creating abstract paintings and collages. You can find my work on Instagram @zoe.lukas and @whippedbakeshop.
For me, the practice of making art is like a ritual or meditation. My creative process is very intuitive, and I am highly focused on mark-making and laying down a rich vocabulary of color and texture in each piece. I like to extensively work the surface, and I enjoy experimenting with different ways to layer colors and materials. Some of my tools include piping bags, needles and syringes, sanders, nails, and of course, brushes.
Currently, my work explores visual boundaries and transparency, with pieces created by both adding and subtracting paint and materials to the surface. I layer paint and then sand it down, scrape and pull at the surface to create texture, and work with the interplay of shiny vs. matte; rough vs. smooth; and saturated color vs. soft. My hope is that the viewer feels some of the poetry that I feel when making the work, and through that, we can share a powerful bond.
Thank you so much for taking the time to learn more about my artwork!
Sincerely,
Zoë Lukas