Lucas Blok

David Pagel of the Los Angeles Times wrote: “These crisp, graphic colorist abstractions seem to move at warp speed… Immediate legibility gives way to slow-motion scrutiny…confirming that Blok’s seemingly straightforward paintings are filled with more twists and turns than immediately meets the eye”. And as Chuck Thurman of the Monterey County Weekly describes: “The more you stare, the more you realize that what originally looked static is tearing around in the frame and taking you with it. It’s a Dionysian revel dressed up in Apollonian duds.” Washington D.C. art critic Louis Jacobson wrote: “Blok’s color fields structurally echo proto-minimalists like Joseph Albers, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko…but they have the tremulous appearance of a vibrating piano string.”

Rick Deragon expressed a similar under-standing in a Monterey County Herald review: “Lucas Blok…attempts to do with color what musicians do with sound, that is, control the color relationships so that the viewer ‘delves’ into the painting the way a listener digests chordal and harmonic relationships as music plays. The more the viewer looks, the more the painting ‘happens.’”

Lucas Blok has had solo exhibitions at the Monterey Museum of Art, Triton Museum, Octagon Museum of the American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.. His paintings are in the collections of The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento, Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, Monterey Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, and St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco, and numerous private collections throughout North America and Europe.