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About Luke Stoffel
Lucas Stoffel (b. 1978) is a NYC based artist, author, and creative director Honored by GLAAD as a Top LGBTQ+ Artist in 2012. His work spans painting, photography, and storytelling, with projects ranging from the Hong Kong Ballet—where he is creating a visual series on the Chinese folklore Butterfly Lovers—to five years working backstage on Broadway.
Stoffel’s art has been showcased by the Matthew Shepard Foundation, amfAR, and earned him the Starving Artist Award. His photography has appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, AM New York, Hawaiian Airlines Magazine, and on Bravo television. Exhibitions include The Art Directors Club, Prince George Gallery, the Puck Building, GalleryBar, and New World Stages. He has also been commissioned by Ralph Lauren’s family and featured at international cultural events.
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The ways in which this world has created beauty through devotion to the unknown is what inspires me the most. I am fascinated by society’s interpretations of God, and how we infuse dance, song, and ritual with such profound meaning, even for something or someone intangible. My goal is to convey these ideas through visual art. Not only do I strive to interpret the cultural significance of various religions and traditions, but I also aim to challenge viewers to question the very essence of “who or what is God?” I’m less interested in making work that is purely commercial, and more interested in opening a dialogue.
Lucas Stoffel
What Inspires You?
What if there never was a Neverland?
What if the child in Peter Pan's shadow was forced to grow up? What if the monster you fear most is the one you're becoming?
In the turquoise waters of Palawan, where limestone karsts rise like ancient teeth and sirens guard their treasures in the deep, Jack and Baby Boy are best friends, partners, and thieves—diving for fragments of fallen stars to keep their starving village alive.
They’ve been inseparable since the night the sirens killed their fathers and left them to survive alone. They’ve never said I love you, but everyone can see it in the way they’d die for each other without hesitation.
Then the sirens strike again. Baby Boy is dragged into the depths before Jack’s eyes. When he escapes, he’s no longer the same—he’s stolen the heart of a siren, and it burns inside his chest, corrupting him from within.
Jack has weeks to save him. Maybe less.
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What Inspires You?
Travel Photography
Twenty years of wandering through Asia, Europe, and beyond — not as a tourist, but as a witness. These photographs trace the moments between monuments: temple valleys at dawn, night markets in motion, the quiet geometry of streets that don't know they're beautiful. The same eye that paints geishas and monks, the same restlessness that wrote seven books.