Sven Lukin’s vibrant canvases of the 1960s use shape and color to play with ideas of space, architecture, and illusion. His paintings are sculptural, but they maintain the illusion of painting by never leaving their connections to the wall. Flat areas of color emphasize the physical shape of the protrusions, most often in hot California colors that entered Lukin’s practice after he spent the summer of 1963 in Venice Beach.
Source: Hollis Taggart
