About

Lukasz Lesnik is a Polish artist that mainly works in painting and sculpture. Through the mediums, Lesnik explores themes of gender, sexuality, and emotion. A common theme in his work is the involvement in queer culture and the personal beliefs of the artist that come from experience. The artist employs different mediums but most commonly acrylic and oil paints. Lesnik continuously develops his style by exploring different techniques of paint application. The artist often reflects on his own feelings of detachment from possible partners and emotional struggles. Lesnik explores this theme using pornography, depicting people in an act that is associated with romance but in the context of pornographic images, it represents the act of sex without emotion. This is emphasised by close ups of the bodies and removal of any characteristics of the person. The artists current body of work employs the use of blending wet oil paints which creates variable tones and shades after which the artists add more viscous consistency of paints to add visible brush strokes.