Luke Whittaker
​​Graduating Class 2016

Luke Whittaker (thelukewhittaker.com) is an emerging artist currently living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. He obsesses over figuration in everyday experiences, capturing a feeling, moment, position or scene. The goal of his work is to pull the physical body out of the mediums he uses. Attempting to extract and reveal the body that resides underneath the surface of the canvas becomes a dance between his own figure and that of the painting. In order to expose the figure, he is constantly moving back and forth between materials ranging from classic charcoal and graphite to photoshop and illustrator. His physical paintings and drawings always find a new life through the digital collages he creates from photographs of them.

​Instagram: @lukewhittaker191
Website: ​thelukewhittaker.com

Artwork for the 2022 Darien Alumni Art Show, June 10th - 13th 

Spontaneous Pneumothorax - 18 3/4" x 20 3/4" Acrylic and charcoal on canvas $400

Studio Floor - 16 x 20 Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas $450 SOLD

"Cardboard 10" acrylic and charcoal on cardboard, 2" x 6.5", $300 SOLD

"Cardboard 8" acrylic and charcoal on cardboard, 2" x 6.5", $300 SOLD

"Cardboard 7" acrylic and charcoal on cardboard, 7.125" x 6.7", $300 SOLD

"Cardboard 14" acrylic and charcoal on cardboard, 3.8" x 8.2", $300

Born in Toronto, Canada he was diagnosed with Leukemia at the age of five. In the midst of treatment he moved to Darien; after a bone marrow transplant, radiation treatment and chemotherapy, he was rid of the cancer at the age of eight. Luke attended Darien High School, graduating in 2016, then went on to graduate, with honors, from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in painting. During his senior year he participated in RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome, Italy. Luke has pieces in collections as far afield as Canada and Sweden. He is currently a Bard CCS graduate program candidate. 

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Works from the 2021 Darien Alumni Art Show 

Shipwreck - Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic and Oil on Stitched Canvas ​60 x 41.5. (in) ​2020 Not For Sale

Mirror Portrait - Charcoal, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 24 x 21 (in) 2019 $600 SOLD

There Is No Emotion In This Painting - Acrylic, Oil, Gesso, Chalk Pastel on Canvas 60 x 45 (in) 2021 $3,000 SOLD

Untitled - Acrylic, Oil, Pastel and Ink on Wood Panel 48 x 36 (in) 2021 $1,800 SOLD