Artist Profile: Luke Townsend

Luke Townsend

1218 Pierre St
Manhattan, KS 66502

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Web - www.luketownsendphoto.com Instagram - @luketownsendphoto Based in the Flint Hills of Kansas, artist Luke Townsend works in photography with an interest in long form and alternative photographic printmaking. A student of Tibetan Calligraphy, Luke's exploring multiple bodies of work which evolve in collaboration with multiple mediums and processes, influenced from a limited personal experience in Buddha Dharma. Motivated by the direct advice of Acharya Lama Gursam Rinpoche; to explore and photograph our conscious experience in order to benefit many beings, my work is simply of my own experience as it evolves - a visual debate - - an active exhibition - I'm thrilled to share this work with the aim of benefitting others through challenging learned observations, spreading Bodhicitta, and expanding the creative potential to communicate. Luke has multiple photographic works in the permanent collection of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, and in 2022 installed a permanent photographic mural, "2Americas - work from the civil unrest of 2020 in collaboration with artist, Doug Barrett - 13' x 32', in the ceiling of the DOW Center for Multicultural and Community Studies in Hale Library at Kansas State University. Multiple other photographs are on display across the KSU campus in collections at the Morris Family Multicultural Student Center, Staley School of Leadership Studies, and within the Presidential residence of President Richard Linton and First Lady Sally Linton. Luke is a freelance contributor for ZUMA Press with work published in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, ABC News, The New Territory, Wisdom Publications, Kansas Leadership Center Journal, National Geographic Your Shot, and newspapers across the globe. He serves on the board of the Friends of the Beach Museum of Art and is a member of the National Press Photographers Association.