Lukas Felzmann

Lukas Felzmann was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1959. He received his MFA at San Francisco Art Institute. Felzmann is a photographer, sculptor, and installation artist. A lot of his work focuses on nature, especially his newest series "about the Sacramento Valley as place and metaphor by documenting a marsh altered through agriculture" and development (art.stanford.edu). His work focuses on the intersection of nature and human culture. Through his work, "our environment appears dissected, condensed into stacks of books and strung with wires, threatened but ultimately triumphant as it tears apart and floods our roadways and topples our houses. Yet far from aggressive, his art is subtle, metaphorical and based in a world which seems to elude easy categorization" (greenmuseum.org).

I chose to research this artist for a couple of different reasons. His work primarily focuses on nature, which is what my work is focusing on as well. He exposes the connection between the natural world and human civilization and what we do to control it. Ultimately, nature prevails though. Through my work, I'm trying to expose my connection to nature and my environment through abstracted surreal imagery. Also, he is an installation artist. I've been thinking about how I will present my final work and I've considered doing an installation with projections. Looking at other multimedia artists and their final presentation is really helpful when I think about how I will present my pieces.

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