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Biography
Joan Lukowiecky (Costa Rica, 1975)
Lives and works between Costa Rica and Miami. In 1998 she graduated with a B.S. in Architecture from the Universidad Autónoma de Centro América in San Jose, Costa Rica. Twelve years later she received a Photography Associate of Science Degree from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As an architect she worked on many projects before finally founding her own firm, Joan Lukowiecky Architecture and Interior Design, in San José, which she directed from 1999 to 2009. In 2011 she had two solo shows in Costa Rica: one at the VIP Lounge of the Juan Santamaría International Airport, the other at Los Sueños Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort in Herradura. Within a year of these first shows, she was honored with the Gold Award at the 2012 Show Artist Exhibition in Santiago, Chile. The following year she exhibited as a Winning Artist at Art Takes Time Square in New York. She has participated in many group shows in Costa Rica, Chile and the United States, including the esteemed WWAB at the Red Dot Art Fair. From 2009 to present she has worked at Joan Lukowiecky Photography (Commercial and Fine Art) in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.
Artist Statement
"I conceive my work as a photographer in terms of series or essays--groups of images that emerge out of a strategy or a concrete conceptual proposal.
The topics I deal with—the body’s territory, nature, urban dynamics, the machinery of systems, etc.—insinuate a constant displacement from the public sphere to the private, from the industrial and the urban to the profoundly sacred and intimate.
By capturing each of these images I establish an emotional link between myself, “the scene”, and “the photographed subject”; that which specialists have called photographic “punctum”.
I emphasize the interplay of detail, texture, light and contrast, on occasions highlighting aspects or objects almost invisible in the image, offering them another category or aesthetic relevance.
Despite their deliberate treatment of the figurative, some images may be abstract in appearance; this “linguistic turn” incurs on the territory of suggestion and allows the spectator to connect to these images without the prejudice of the known and familiar.
I am interested in images thought out a prior-i as well as the photographic event itself, but also believe that post-production offers other sensorial and narrative possibilities. I understand photography as a forceful cultural and social tool; but also as a powerful aesthetic one."
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