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Lori Park Lori Park, artist
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AboutLori's work reflects her fascination with texture and movement as well as the source of much of her inspiration- nature.Her large dress-like female- form sculptures and "textural panels" emerge from her Marrakech studio, fusing a human language of dance, movement, and energy -with nature. These works display a force of sensuous energy- flowing cascades of texture, layers of color and energy, all embedded with roses, palm fronds, etc, as well as found cultural identity pieces. Her seven "Radiance Figures" -large female dress-like figures formed the core of her solo show at the Museum of Marrakech, and combined dance as a metaphor with the natural world and spiritual/cultural belief systems(including for example the seven chakras). Lori creates sculptures in many diverse materials, casting in bronze and glass, using mixed-media with paper, resin, cloth, wax,clay. She creates suspended installations, such as larger flying wire figures (hung on monofilament) and sometimes "floating architecture" installations composed of hundreds of suspended wire sculptures all interacting through movement. She also works in sheet copper and brass, and constructs box collages, and collages. Many of her sculptures and installations relate to the natural world in some way, joyous and filled with movement. Others pieces speak to the moment of the time(such as "Eat The War" a bronze minotaur eating small soldiers!)...questions of culture, questions of human nature, questions about the human condition, questions of existence...all though, a celebration of life- contained within the natural world. |
Exhibition HistorySolo Exhibitions2007 The Museum of Marrakech, Marrakech 2007 Galerie Re, Marrakech, Morocco 2005 Dar Cherifa Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco 2003 Atrium Gallery, PricewaterhouseCoopers, London 2003 Galeria Sa Tafona, Mallorca, Spain 2002 Galeria Sa Tafona, Mallorca, Spain 2001 Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington DC 2001 Coral Beach Club, Bermuda 2000 Galeria Sa Tafona, Mallorca, Spain 1999 Cleveland Park Club, Washington D.C. 1998 Howard/Hanson Fine Art Gallery, Ashland,Oregon Selected Group Exhibitions (Upcoming) Newby Hall Summer Sculpture Exhibition, North Yorkshire, UK, 2010 (Upcoming)Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2010 The Royal Free Hospital, London, 2006-2010 Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast, N.Ireland, 2005-2010 Nering + Stern Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2005-2010 Augustus Brandt, West Sussex, UK, 2009 Artspace, The Barn Galleries, Henley-On-Thames, UK, 2007 Storage Art Gallery, London, UK, 2007 Hardcastle Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, 2005-2007 Dar Cherifa Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco, 2006 Henley International Festival of Music&the Arts, Henley-On-Thames, UK, 2005 Artspace, The Barn Galleries, Henley-On-Thames, UK, 2005 The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002-2004 Galeria Sa Tafona, Mallorca, Spain, 2000-2003 Trobada International d’ Artistas (International Gathering of Artists) Mallorca, 2002 Can Puig Galleria, Mallorca, Spain (2-person show), 2001 Bennessar Gallery, Mallorca, Spain, 1999 505 Gallery, Washington D.C., 1998 |
Biography / CVIn addition to her art, Lori spent years working in the environmental field. She divides her time between studios in Marrakech, the UK, and the US. She works on projects and has exhibited in the USA, Europe, the UK, and North Africa. |
Artist StatementI am fascinated by the texture and movement of life as it is held within the pulse of nature. My art changed dramatically after I began working in Marrakech, fed by new cultural influences.At the core of my art is nature, what has always been a deep source of inspiration for me, in many areas of my life. In Marrakech I experienced an even stronger language of movement and texture, as I was surrounded by dance, music, a sense of pure feeling and timelessness. This continues to emerge in my work as I view dance and movement as a connecting language and an important and sometimes mysterious form of communication between and within cultures. In particular the large dress-like female- form sculptures and "textural panels" fuse this energy with nature, displaying a force of sensuous movement- flowing cascades of texture, color, and energy. These pieces are embedded with roses, palm fronds, etc, as well as cultural found objects. I love using many diverse materials in creating my sculptures - casting in bronze and glass, using mixed-media with paper, resin, cloth, plaster wax, clay. I often use found objects that reflect a cultural identity. I work in sheet copper and wire and I like working with sculptures in space: larger flying wire figures as suspended installations(hung on monofilament)and sometimes "floating architecture" installations which are hundreds of wire sculptures all suspended, interacting through movement. Many of my pieces relate to the natural world, joyous and filled with movement, while others speak to the moment of the time (such as "Eat The War" a bronze minotaur eating small soldiers!)...questions of culture, questions of human nature, questions about the human condition. Though all, I believe, is a celebration of life- contained within the natural world. |
Awards and Prizes2002 Best of Show Award, Trobada International d’ Artistas, (International Gathering of Artists) Mallorca, Spain2000 Deia Art Prize, Non-painting category, Gallery Max, Mallorca, Spain 1998 Artist Grant, Washington D.C. Commission for the Arts, Washington D.C. 1997 Fellowship, Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain NY |
Acquisitions / CollectionsThe Museum Of Marrakech, MoroccoThe Royal Bank of Scotland, United Kingdom Baron and Baroness von Schroder Collection, Germany The Marquess of Bath, Lord Bath, U.K. Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection, Washington D.C. Don Pedro Serra Collection, Spain |
Qualifications / Education1993 Harvard University, Masters Degree, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA1986 The Evergreen State College, Bachelor's Degree, Olympia, Washington State |
Publications / Media / BibliographyAssociated Press Television:"Lori Park, American Artist in Marrakech" Global distribution, 2007 |
Teaching ExperienceI teach art in a Berber girls' school up in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The girls are from remote villages and have never had any art experience in their family or academic lives, so it is interesting for them - and me! I have also taught art in a Moroccan school in the medina. These are voluntary activities. |
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