Now on View
Luba Lukova: Designing Justice exhibition's new journey: a stop at Gold Coast Arts Center in Great Neck, New York
November 3, 2024 – April 28, 2025
Gold Coast Arts Center
113 Middle Neck Road
Great Neck, New York 11021
Opening Reception
Sunday, November 3, 2024
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday
9:00 am – 8:00 pm
Saturday – Sunday
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Free and open to the public
Gold Coast Arts Center is pleased to host Luba Lukova's captivating Designing Justice exhibition. More relevant now than ever, her stunning images inspire, energize, and trigger discussion.
Luba Lukova: Designing Justice tackles essential themes of humanity and injustices worldwide through images embedded with thought-provoking messages that help viewers develop empathy for social and cultural issues. Lukova’s artwork uses metaphors and bold, succinct symbols to communicate universal truths about desire, fear, creation, hope and man’s endless capacity for love and hate. Among the themes addressed are war and peace, censorship, immigration, ecology, hunger, and corruption.
In Lukova’s art, less is more. More effect, more message, more expression; all while doing it with less. The visual elements are bold with few fine details but the intent is clear. Her messages reflect the human condition, fundamental fairness, and justice. Yet while it is easy to focus solely on the messages of her provocative works, it is important to take a step back to appreciate the artistic merit in her simplicity. Her use of striking, metaphoric images gives the viewers art to not only appreciate visually but intellectually.
Curated for Gold Coast Arts Center by Jude Amsel and Luba Lukova.
Now on View
Luba Lukova's work at the Ford Foundation in New York
Permanent Exhibition
Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017
Public Visiting Hours
Monday – Friday
11:00 am – 6:00 pm
The art of Luba Lukova is included in the Ford Foundation's permanent collection of contemporary art, displayed in the generous space of their landmark headquarters building in Manhattan.
On view are Lukova's original lithographs and hand-made serigraphs created for La MaMa Theater in New York. Lukova's enduring collaboration with Ellen Stewart, the visionary founder and producer of La MaMa, is fueled by the artist's unwavering interest in theater and her gift to stir the soul with a single image. Over a span of 15 years, she created striking theater posters for each of Ms. Stewart's productions, including her final one before she passed away in 2011. Lukova's arresting images grab the viewer and don't let go, transcending the stage as indelible symbols of our human experience.
The Ford Foundation also exhibits The Printed Woman by Luba Lukova, an original lithograph for her exhibition at La MaMa Gallery in New York. Lukova depicts a woman's body passing through the cylinder of a printing press, while sheets of paper with her face printed on them fly out of the machine – an evocative metaphor about the the artist's personality imprinted in everything she creates.