//_BIO: Lucas J. Knowles is an emerging ceramic and intermedia artist based in Phoenix, Arizona. Knowles earned a Bachelor of Fine Art’s degree with a focus on Ceramics and Sculpture from Florida State University. He is currently an MFA Candidate in Ceramics within the School of Art at Arizona State University. Lucas J. Knowles has exhibited nationally and abroad, including the Humboldt University of Berlin for Berlin Science Week, as well as the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in both 2018 and 2019 respectively. In 2019, Lucas J. Knowles was selected to participate in the NCECA National Juried Student Exhibition. In 2020, Knowles received the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, earning features by Sculpture.org, ARTSY, and Sculpture Magazine.
//_STATEMENT: Within his eclectic studio practice, Lucas J. Knowles builds cosmological objects and experiences that explore philosophical concepts like “absent-presence”, “present-absence”, and various other examinations into human ontology.