Bobby T Luck

Bobby T Luck is a visual artist and education activist based in Columbus, Ohio who works in film, multimedia collage, and installation. After relocating to Columbus from Philadelphia he jump-started the Free Skool for Humans initiative, co-founded MINT Collective, and teaches collage and film theory workshops across the country. He recently served on the board of admissions for ACRE residency, completed the Film/Video Studio Residency at Wexner Center for the Arts, has work displayed in the Columbus Museum of Art, and is currently shooting a video collage series on psychological association, memory loss, decay, and creation.

Luck's work focuses on decolonizing modern imagery and media, and re-imagining globalization and the self by breaking down diplomatic and emotional borders through collage. Pop imagery such as film, magazines, advertisements, and music teach context about the world not physically encountered, however, it is also inherently flawed by the limited experiences of its creators. Through Luck’s work, he attempts to decontextualize the flawed context by separating imagery of humans from their surrounding landscape, foliage, and organisms, and then recontextualize them in ways that challenge flaws in our society's approach to social globalization through mass media.

Edited by: Dean Taylor