Luc Fuller

Untitled (Standing Painting)  2014

Acrylic on raw canvas, stretched over coloured cotton fabric on artist designed wooden stretcher

56 x 28 in.

Born in Washington in 1989, Luc Fuller now lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Having studied at the Mara University of Technology in Malaysia, his oeuvre includes a strong underlying sense of acute spatial awareness and constructive prowess. His works become almost architectural: dictating space and allocating a dimensional direction to the perception and experience of his pieces.

Fuller has exhibited internationally in the States, Italy, Germany, Russia and Malaysia. Standing Paintings, at the Rod Barton Gallery in 2014, marked his first major solo exhibition in London. In that same year, he also displayed his work at the Multiplex Gallery in his hometown of Portland in an exhibition titled Wu Tang Paintings. In 2012 he participated in the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art at the Museum of Modern art. 

Fuller aims to question the traditional presentation of art: he inverts common method and instead displays his paintings on the floor, changing their structural qualities and potential view-points. Visitors thus walk through his works, not only psychologically processing them but also physically experiencing them in their journey of observation. The artist’s oeuvre is designed to question cultural appropriation and allotment. His recurrent reproduction of Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘W’ symbol represents the investigation into the social relationships between people, symbols and culture. Fuller plays with ubiquity and uniqueness, creating a labyrinth of canvases that consciously encourage both artist and viewer to update their perceptions and awareness.