ATTILA RICHARD LUKACS VISITS HAMILTON TO UNVEIL NEVER BEFORE SEEN WORKS WHAT: Attila Richard Lukacs Exhibition WHEN: June 15 - July 21, 2007 OPENING RECEPTION: June 15, 2007 at 7pm WHERE: Hamilton Artists Inc. Headquarters ADDRESS: 3 Colbourne Street, Hamilton, Ontario GALLERY HOURS: Tues-Fri: 12pm-5pm, Sat: 12pm-4pm WEBSITE: www.hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca “Elton John collects him. Architects have graduated from the Emily Carr Institute more introspective and private message. designed rooms to accommodate his of Art and Design in 1985 . He then In 2003, Lukacs returned with a massive canvases. His portraits, painted moved to Berlin, working at the vengeance to earlier themes of in a style that mixes high realism with Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In 1996 he homosexuality, social deviance, sexual Nazi kitsch, suggest everything about relocated to New York City. In 2001 he aggression, punishment and male masculinity liberal society struggles to lived and worked in Hawaii. He currently suprema cy in OF MONKEYS AND suppress. Here is Fight Club set in an lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. MEN . even more idyllic world, where women don't even exist - an Eden without Eve.” – Richard Goldstein, Village Voice, February 2000 World-renowned Canadian artist, Attila Richard Lukas, will personally unveil works never before seen by the public Friday, June 15, 2007 at 7pm at Hamilton Artists Inc.’s Headquarters at 3 Colbourne Street in Hamilton, Ontario. This exhibition is a provocative symbol of the diverse cultural and artistic community that has reinvented itself alo ng Hamilton’s iconic James Street North. Lukacs’ works will continue to be on display until Saturday, July 21, 2007. The Opening Reception is one of many official Hamilton Pride Events taking place during Hamilton’s 11 th Annual Pride Festival from June 9-17, 2007. “Attila Richard Lukacs is one of the most prolific high profile contemporary Lukacs is known predominantly for his “Lukacs’ paintings are a comment on artists currently alive and working in paintings of male skin heads, primates desire, through their fetishization of Canada,” says Ian Jarvis, Community and American military cadets during the working class men. The connection Program Director for Hamilton Artists early 1990s. between violence and desire makes us Inc., “This event has the entire arts uncomfortable, but perhaps that’s the community holding it's breath, it offers During his time in Hawaii, Lukacs point. Lukacs’ paintings ask us no t to Hamilton artists, fans, and the general created a beautiful series of paintings look away. But if we do look away, it public an extraordinary opportunity not with gold leaf entitled FLOWERS. His must be to look inside ourselves. Are we to be missed." 1999 exhibition, ARBOR VITAE, innocent? Perhaps not.” – Sky Gilbert, dramatically differed in subject to his Attila Richard Lukacs and the Problem Attila Richard Lukacs is a Canadian earl ier bodies of work, but these elegant of the Body, May 2007 artist. Born in Alberta in 1962 he paintings provided the viewer with a Media Contact: Ian Jarvis - Community Program Director, Hamilton Artists Inc. Publicity Services: Lyla-The Publicist e-mail: [email protected] phone: (905) 529-3355 e-mail: [email protected] .