Luke is by far the youngest person we have ever interviewed. Luke’s art career is but at it’s birthing stages and what better way to get into the mind of an artist than at his beginning. Luke is only 17 but already has gained great insight into the world. Luke’s primary focus is on the unequal rights between upper, middle, and lower classes. In effect his art itself is a statement for a class war. It is Luke’s tenacity, vision, and force of will that we wanted to share with our readers. If you do not to appreciate Luke’s art then at least remember the strength and pure vision we all had in our youth.
JackDirt: Why don’t you start by telling us a little bit about your family, and area you are growing up in?
LukeRudolph: I was born in Madison Wisconsin, and after a few years my family moved to Wausau. Wausau is a relatively small city (around 100,000 people if you count the small cities right next door.) It doesn’t carry the unaccepting stigma that most small towns do; it is rather liberal and accepting of people, cultures and different views. My Dad, Brad, is a 5th grade teacher, play director and lighting designer. He is exceptional at whatever he does, and he has made sure I take a sense of pride in whatever I am doing, whether it is my art or a job that has no real meaning behind it. My Mom, Sarah, is a professor at UWMC and has directed over 40 plays. She has the tender loving care that all mothers should have and has helped me through life immensely. And that leave us with my Brother, Grady, he is a computer science major at University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. All of my family has been very supporting in terms of my art and my philosophies and they are an integral role in my life, thinking and art.
