Artist Luke Hillstad | American Contemporary Painter

Luke Hillstad 

kitsch aestheticism figurative and primitive paintings on the hatch and Hillestad well, the artist from Minneapolis, worthy successor to the glorious tradition of the legendary Odd Nerdrum (Eng. Odd Nerdrum).

Luke Hillestad is an American artist. Born 1982 in Minneapolis. In 2006, he left his job as a land surveyor and began writing full time.

Opening books about the work of Rembrandt and Odd Nerdrum next to a blank canvas, he plunged headlong into his studies, then studied with Odd Nerdrum himself and traveled all over the world, visiting museums and studios to find out from the paintings the secrets of the masters of the past, whose traditions he seeks to follow.

Using the palette of the ancient Greek painter Apelles Luke and a collection of mummified animals, the artist tried to illustrate the primitive beauty of people in its most noble presentation, placing his characters in the center of paintings on the themes of death, kinship, rituals and nature.

Luke Hillstad is represented at The Rymer Gallery in Nashville, L'oeil du Prince Gallery in Paris and Flanders and Rogue Buddha galleries in Minneapolis. His work has also been featured in exhibitions in Florida.