Luke Harnden is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, and video installation. His acrylic linear abstractions synthesize methodologies by blending photography, printmaking and painterly techniques. His sculptures utilize stacks of carved paper, which have been reorganized to allow the forms to be doubled, merged, and multiplied while remaining decidedly material. His video installations involve mechanical apparatus that augment feedback loops projected into a space combining physical presence and mechanical animation with modern means of disseminating moving imagery. Using representational and abstract imagery in tandem with conceptual processes, Harnden negotiates his own subjectivity through direct and mediated gestures, which investigate authorship, identity formation, technology, psychology, ecstatic material exploration. He is currently an MFA candidate at The California Institute of the Arts and is represented in Dallas by the Barry Whistler Gallery.