Exhibit Info
Title:
The Allure of Technology
Dates:
March 28 - May 30, 2026
Location:
Technology Center
About:
The Receptor Series
These digital paintings are from a series called “Receptor.” At first, they were strictly sci-fi. But now I see something familiar in them: cell phones. The glowing shapes are projecting toward the viewer, but they’re also drawing something away (our energies, let’s say.) In the Receptors, the light does more than make the shapes visible. It insists on our attention. It commands it.
I call them Receptors, but they’re really receiving nothing. You are the receptor.
Artist Bio
Joe Lugara began painting and taking photographs as a boy. His works depict unusual forms and inexplicable phenomena, taking as their basis horror, science fiction, and fantasy films produced from the 1930s through the late 1960s.
Mr. Lugara’s images have appeared in more than 40 exhibitions and 30 magazines. His painting series “Scrutiny” was featured in a solo exhibition at the Noyes Museum of Art and served as the cover art for issue 6 of The Lincoln Review, where it was nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology. He produced cover art for The MacGuffin and Your Impossible Voice literary journals and contributed interior art to, among others, Ponder Review, Barnstorm Literary Journal, Another Chicago Magazine, The Harvard Advocate and the Denver Quarterly.
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Social Media
Instagram: @joelugara