Karl Weiming Lu’s Artworks & Biography

Posted on January 22, 2024

Here present some unique artworks of acrylic & oil paintings by a top talented artist of philosophy and science & technology, Karl Weiming Lu, which include his improv landscape series, psychological memory series, and intuitive abstract series of the origins of universe & life. Lu’s distinctive paintings are suitable to be hanged on various spaces of cozy homes, classy cafes or restaurants, deluxe hotels and corporate spaces. In fact, Lu’s oil painting Sydney Bondi Beach Walks had been selected to hang on the board room of GE’s Australian Headquarter in Sydney. Meantime, his paintings are also privately collected by individuals.

A Brief of Karl W. Lu’s Artist Biography:

Karl Weiming Lu, 吕.卡尔.卫民, is a Contemporary Artist of Science & Technology, Psychology, and Philosophy; a Premium Plus Member of National Association for the Visual Arts, Australia; and a visiting Professor of Boya Think Tank of Beijing University, China. Lu was born in 1962 into a big intellectual family in Hangzhou, China. Since 1991, he relocated to Australia to have his postgraduate studies in philosophy and international relations in The University of Wollongong and University of Sydney, and he further earned triple master’s degrees in art, design, and architecture from UNSW (The University of New South Wales). Before came to Australia, Lu was a civil engineer and project manager who learnt building design and management psychology from Zhejiang University of Science & Technology, and China Academy of Science. Besides, he also participated in the 85 New Wave Art Movement in mid 1980s. Since 2000, he practices art professionally, his artworks have been exhibited, published, awarded, and collected globally. Trained in both Eastern and Western traditions, he often combines the two to create unique hybrid styles with both oil and Chinese ink brush techniques. “The Memory Series 2002-03” originated his Xie-Yi acrylic & oil painting（写意丙烯油画）which evokes both real and imaginary landscapes where 1980’s Chinese students pondered philosophy, psychology, literature, economics, art, and science. Lu created the “Dripping Fluid” technique in his “Memory Series: Talking about Dreams” in 2003, which had been further developed by him into a “Dripping Flow Abstract Art”. Since 2010, Lu has created his unique Intuitive Abstract Art of Philosophy of Science & Technology – “The Origin Series”, to abstractly paint his intuitions about the origins of life, nature, and universe with his bold and fluent brush strokes. ( For more information, please contact the artist through his email address: kwlu8@hotmail.com )