🪑🎨 Kyle Lucks: Painting Icons, The Pressure of Perfection, and Why He Hasn’t Painted Taylor Swift (Yet)

Celebrity artist Kyle Lucks is the man about town in Palm Beach, Florida and the artist of the moment!  His paintings of professional athletes, historical icons, and cultural legends hang in sports stadiums, arenas, and private collections around the world. He’s painted everyone from Coco Gauff, Beyonce, Jack Nicklaus, Rick Ross, and Serena Williams, to Donald Trump, Jackie Kennedy, and Abraham Lincoln.

In this episode of In The Hype Seat, host Holly Meyer Lucas sits down with celebrity portrait artist ⁨Kyle Lucks for a raw, funny, and authentic conversation that covers lots of bases including the pressures of painting faces everyone knows, Kyle's career-defining commissions, how he builds storytelling, energy, and emotion into every layer he paints, and what it’s like to be the “it” artist of the season in Palm Beach.

They talk about his Artist in Residence grand exhibition, his collaboration with the white hot U.S. Polo Association, and they dive into what it is like working together behind the scenes at Hype Boss, where Holly and her team run Kyle's social media strategy, PR, and brand visibility.

In this episode, Holly and Kyle unpack:

• Kyle's creative process behind his most iconic portraits
• The pressure of painting celebrities faces that everyone knows, and getting them just right
• The now-infamous ⁨Jimmy Buffett lyric mistake
• Holly's annoyance about Kyle's Rick Ross painting going viral
  and why Taylor Swift and Michael Jordan still haven't made it to Kyle's canvas yet.

If you're curious about what it's like being a full-time professional artist in 2025, or what it means to turn iconic moments into works of art - this episode is for you.

🎨 See Kyle’s work, browse prints, and purchase originals: https://www.kylelucks.com
📍 Recorded at PodPlus, Jupiter, Florida: https://www.podplusstudios.com
🎧 Produced by Hype Boss | https://www.hypeboss.com

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