Paintings installed in Kennedy Hall lobby, Sandhills Community College
September 2016, Solo Exhibition at Sandhills Community College, North Carolina
The Last Eight Years or So...
Excerpts from Unfinished Series Including:
What Skin Knows
A Woman Somewhere
Words of Black Elk and T.S. Eliot
Icons
and
Markers
From Series: A Woman Somewhere
Summer 2016, Wet Plate Photo Series 20 x 5"
The Unseen, (Slave Women Raising Children)
acrylic on canvas, Lori Lorion, 2015
From Series: A Woman Somewhere
acrylic on canvas, Lori Lorion, 2015
From Series: A Woman Somewhere
Forgotten Fresco, Oil on four panels, 2014
The Dream Awake
Solo Exhibition, Lori Lorion
MHCC Visual Arts Gallery
February, 2014
Solo Exhibition, Lori Lorion
MHCC Visual Arts Gallery
February, 2014
Lori Lorion's painting, The Words of Black Elk and T.S. Eliot
2015 Juried West Coast Biennial
Oil on three panels, 2013
“While you’re painting, you’re not in that realm of thinking. You’re not putting a language together in that way — (where) words are strung together from left to right — you’re not there at all. You’re in a world of this other realm where your body’s moving, and you’re feeling things, you’re moving the goo around, and then your brain comes in periodically to do its little chore, which is helpful, but it’s not the thing that’s in charge...”
“This (the act of painting) is an opportunity to express other realities that are as much a reality as the world that we maneuver through,” she continued. “When you let go of having a painting having to mimic a three-dimensional world, that’s when you open up to this whole language, and color, and you don’t care what your subject matter is, you’re feeling the language of the paint speaking to you — that’s exciting.” Lorion - See more at: The Advocate
“This (the act of painting) is an opportunity to express other realities that are as much a reality as the world that we maneuver through,” she continued. “When you let go of having a painting having to mimic a three-dimensional world, that’s when you open up to this whole language, and color, and you don’t care what your subject matter is, you’re feeling the language of the paint speaking to you — that’s exciting.” Lorion - See more at: The Advocate
Detail from Mural: When The Monster Only Smiles
Lori in Canada, 2009.
lorilorion@hotmail.com
Lori's paintings are dreamlike celebrations of the human body in motion. She creates a reality where imposing, large-scale figures quietly emerge from within a mysterious world. Her brightly colored, often richly textured paintings have a musical feel to them. Unabashedly bold, yet gentle and silent, these robust figures pulsate with life.
Lori's work has been exhibited in California, Oregon, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Vermont and Skopje Macedonia. She earned her MFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lori spends part of her year painting in North Carolina and the rest of her year painting and teaching in Oregon.
Lori's work has been exhibited in California, Oregon, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Vermont and Skopje Macedonia. She earned her MFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lori spends part of her year painting in North Carolina and the rest of her year painting and teaching in Oregon.
