First Saturday Open Studios

Lucas Mindzak is a Vancouver-based painter and graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Working primarily in oil, his practice draws from lived experience—shifting between the intensity of restaurant kitchens and the quiet expanse of British Columbia’s shores.

Grounded in observation yet open to memory and intuition, his work explores how environments shape identity and belonging. Whether an interior or a landscape, each painting holds a sense of pause, capturing not a place but a moment. An invitation to look closely at the spaces that frame our daily lives.