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Luke Shemroske (b. 1991) describes art making as an adventure. We all know that some adventures turn out better than others, and each adventure yields its own successes, failures, accomplishments, defeats, joys, sorrows, struggles, complexities of emotions, ideas, thoughts, and inspirations, all of which are apparent in Luke’s work.
In one simple yet extremely complex word, Luke’s artwork is truly poetic. Luke’s work evokes ideas of what Federico García Lorca called “duende,” or a dance with death. It is an awareness of death, referential to concept of “Deep Song,” danger and darkness. Unlike the typical artistic muse or angel, the “duende” resides within an artist, beckons and possesses the artist, and drives the artist to create something.
Luke has been featured in the 2020 Paris Outsider Art Fair, multiple New York Outsider Art Fairs, Shin Gallery, and has work in the permanate collection at The Center for Intuit and Outsider Art in Chicago.
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EXHIBITIONS
2023 What Are Words For? - Intuit
2023 Outsider Art Fair 2023 New York
https://www.outsiderartfair.com/new-york
2022 Outsider Art Fair 2022 Paris https://www.outsiderartfair.com/past-fairs-paris/paris-2022
2022 Got Soul https://epiphanychi.com/project-onward-and-salonlb-got-soul/
2022 The Other Art Fair Chicago https://www.theotherartfair.com/chicago/
2021 Small World, Shin Gallery https://www.outsiderartfair.com/program-new-york/small-world?view=slider#9
2020 Lifes Rich Tapestry https://www.facebook.com/events/212779813578871/212779870245532/
2019 The Outsider Art Fair New York 2019 - Past Fairs