Tucker Love, born 1998 in Waco, Texas, is a painter based in Manhattan, New York. Working primarily in oil, Love is best known for exploring the interplay between form and surface through a range of subjects, including still life, imagined landscapes, and modernist figurative traditions. His work engages with both direct observation and historical influences, creating compositions that balance representation and invention.

Love’s practice is characterized by a sensitivity to materiality and a gestural application of paint. His subject matter ranges from everyday scenes of the mundane to direct observation which departs from strict representation in favor of rich pictorial intrigue, often informed by the aesthetics of Sienese painting and expressionist figurative painting. A significant body of work includes an ongoing series of imagined landscapes, which merges historical methodologies with a contemporary sensibility, investigating the tension between perception and memory.

Tucker Love has exhibited in galleries and institutions, including Sugar Gallery in Fayetteville, Arkansas (2020), Mount Gretna Community Center in Lesbon, Pennsylvania (2020), The In Art Gallery in Fayetteville, Arkansas (2021), the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Gallery in Fayetteville, Arkansas (2022), and the New York Studio School Gallery in New York, New York (2024). Awards include the Studio Break “Annual Juried Competition” (2021), and The In Art Gallery, 2nd prize, “Open Theme Exhibition” (2021).