Luke Huling is a ceramic figure sculptor from Harrisburg Pennsylvania. He currently resides in North Carolina and is a full-time faculty member at Sandhills Community College. He received his BFA from Edinboro University and his MFA from Indiana University. He is a past resident at The LUX Center for the Arts and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. He is a scholarship recipient from the National Society of Arts and Letters and the inaugural recipient of the Chris Boger Memorial Award.
“My work focuses on emotional façades and questions the implications of a disguised self. I am intrigued with the ease and routine nature of “stretching the truth” in terms of personal identities, feelings, and afflictions. I see this act of suppression in myself and often wonder if it has been taught during upbringing, or if it is simply innate.
While it is my experience that most of these concealing mechanisms are verbal, I am recently focused on the objects, spaces, and physical architecture that hold us back from one another. I aim to place my figures in a chaotic space where their disguise is not only revealed but the two forms grow together into on entity.”
“My work focuses on emotional façades and questions the implications of a disguised self. I am intrigued with the ease and routine nature of “stretching the truth” in terms of personal identities, feelings, and afflictions. I see this act of suppression in myself and often wonder if it has been taught during upbringing, or if it is simply innate.
While it is my experience that most of these concealing mechanisms are verbal, I am recently focused on the objects, spaces, and physical architecture that hold us back from one another. I aim to place my figures in a chaotic space where their disguise is not only revealed but the two forms grow together into on entity.”