Lori Field
Lori Field was born in NYC in 1955 and still lives and works in the NYC area. She is predominantly self-taught and works in the mediums of encaustic, oil painting, silverpoint drawing, animation and metal relief sculpture and jewelry. After working as a freelance illustrator and textile designer for a decade, a series of life altering events inspired Lori to return to her fine art practice in 1996. Since then, she has had solo exhibitions nationally and internationally in NYC, Berlin, Nashville, Denver, Chicago,Toronto, and Noyers sur Surein.
Double Mint (2019), animation from collages and Book of Pink drawings in collaboration with Harry Field.
STATEMENT
My mixed media drawings, paintings, moving images and sculptures straddle a border between reality and dream, past life and present. They evoke subliminal, mysterious worlds - planets of my own creation, demimondes peopled with anthropomorphic ‘angels with attitude’, accompanied by mutants, exhibitionists, seducers, chimeras........and other intimate strangers. Recently I’ve begun to create peculiar environments for my creatures to frolic in, reminiscent of landscapes we see in our natural world but filled with parallel botany, symmetrical vegetation, weird weather and overzealous fauna. The oddness of these landscapes seem the perfect dioramas for my figures to exist in, reflecting our world, but firmly planted and in captivity in their own. By playing with my own fairy tales and mythology, personalizing obsessive symbols and visual language, and inserting my reoccurring cast of characters into these post-apocalyptic romantic landscapes I am imagining an altered future that might be tolerable after all.
Silverpoint - process
Silverpoint drawing is done with a metal stylus (real silver point embedded in wood) on a prepared gesso surface. The gesso is a rabbit skin glue and chalk based one that has to be heated on the stove and applied to the paper or board surface while warm. I heat gesso and apply 15 to 20 coats in order to prepare the surface to receive the marking from the silverpoint. I wait for it to dry between coats and alternate directions of the coats as they are applied. After the gesso is completely dried (at least 72 hours), I lightly sand the top surface with an extra fine jewelers sandpaper to make it as smooth as possible. I then begin the drawing. I have to work slowly and carefully because unlike pencil, silverpoint cannot be erased. After the drawing is finished it eventually will tarnish as it oxidizes due to sulfur content in the air much like silverware does in the drawer in between polishing. That is part of the unique quality of the line and the fully oxidized drawing will have a softer burnished sepia tone to it.
RESUME
Selected Solo Exhibitions (*2 and 3 person exhibitions)
2020
Spring Break Art Show, NYC, NY solo installation ‘Book of Pink’
La Porte Peinte Centre Pour Les Arts, Noyers sur Surein, France ‘Book of Pink’
2019
La Porte Peinte Centre Pour Les Arts, Noyers sur Surein, France ‘Positively Medieval’
Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL ‘Book of Pink’ solo installation
2018
HPF Christopher Gallery, NYC, NY Lost Civilization
2017
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN ‘Small Saint and Silver Linings’
Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin, Germany ‘Feral Husband’
Gallery House, Toronto, Ontario‘Tyger Tyger and Silver Linings’
2016
Stranger Factory, Abuquerque, NM ‘Neofuedalism’ relief sculpture and wearable drawing installation
2015
Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin, Germany Tyger Tyger
2013
Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville,NJ'Wild Worlds' - *w/ Ben Meunier, Sally McInerney
Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin, Germany‘Silver Linings’
2012
Claire Oliver Gallery, NYC, NY ‘Wild Horses and Wallflowers’
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN‘I am Curious Yellow’
2011
Gallery 2.5, Illinois State University Art Galleries, IL 'The Singing Woods'
2010
Claire Oliver Gallery, NYC, NY 'The Sky is Falling'
2009
Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin, Germany 'Small Saints'
2008
Kinz+Tillou Fine Art, NYC, NY 'New Paintings'
Estel Gallery, Nashville, TN, 'New Paintings' *w/ Anna Jaap
Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 'Fractured Fairy Tales’
David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO - *w/ Naoto Hattori, Anthony Ausgang
2007
Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL 'Outside In' *w/Clyde Angel, Dewey Blocksma
Tag Art Gallery, Nashville, TN 'Saints, Warriors, Tigers, Lovers, Flowers'
Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY 'New Paintings'
2005
Tag Art Gallery, Nashville, TN 'Voyage to the Bunny Planet'
Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ 'Otherworld'
2004
Westminster Gallery, Bloomfield College, NJ 'Becoming Animal' *w/ Liz Seaton
2003
Block Gallery, Montclair, NJ 'Suspension of Disbelief'
2002
The Arts Guild of Rahway, NJ 'Memory/Mythology' *w/ Karen Nielsen-Fried
2000
McGraw Art Gallery, Newark Academy, Livingston, NJ 'Dream Time'
1998
Pierro Gallery, S. Orange, NJ 'Angels with Attitude'
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Uncaged: Animals in the Collection
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Personal Landscapes
2019
Drawing Room Gallery, Jersey City, NJ All Animals Welcome
2017
Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR ‘Lean in Closer’ Curator: Max Kauffman
Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, Georgia ‘Cute and Creepy II’ curator: Carrie Ann Baade
2016
Blam Projects, Brooklyn, NY‘Materia Prima’
Stephen Romano Gallery, NYC ‘Statum Finis’
Stephen Romano Gallery, NYC ‘Saint Bowie’
Stephen Romano Gallery, NYC ‘Hieroglyphica’
2015
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA‘Lustrous Lines: Contemporary Metalpoint’
Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, ArkansasNational Silverpoint Invitational 2015
2014
Stephen Romano Gallery, NYC‘Welcome to the Dreamtime’
The Lodge Gallery, NYC‘Madness’ Curator: Lori Field
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN ‘Whodunit’
Stephen Romano Gallery, NYC‘In Missa Interfectionis’
Stephen Romano Gallery, NYC 'Cornu Copiae'
Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, NYC 'Hronir: Un-Lost Things' - curated by Hazel Lee Santino
2013
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, NY‘Whiter Shade of Pale’
The Lodge Gallery, NYC‘Die Wunderkammer: Objects of Virtue Curators: Keith Schweitzer, Jason Patrick Voegele
Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ New Jersey Arts Annual: Contemporary Craft
Bosi Contemporary, NYC, NY 'Head' Curators: D. Dominick Lombardi, Robert Curcio
2012
Claire Oliver Gallery, NYC, NY 'Beyond Bling' - The Artist as Jeweler
Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack,NY - 'Tell Me a Story, Now' Curator: Lynn Stein
Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin, Germany 'As Time Goes By'
2011
Florida State University Museum 'Cute and Creepy' Curator: Carrie Ann Baade
Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TNSilver: Points of Departure
Curator: Carol Prusa
2009
Claire Oliver Gallery, NYC, NY 'Anticipation'
NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ New Jersey State Fellowship Exhibition
Sloan Fine Art, NYC, NY +2 Summer Group Show
2008
The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, NJ "Ces Enfants Etranges'
Morris Museum, NJ 'Timeless: The Art of Drawing Curator: Ann Aptaker
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 'Sideshow' Curator: Brad Benedict
2007
Noyes Museum of Art, NJ 'New Jersey Fine Arts Annual'
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, NC 'On The Mark'
2005
International Print Center, NYC, NY 'New Prints/Spring' selected by Kiki Smith
Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ 'RCIPP Fellowship Exhibition'
2003
Berrie Center for the Arts, NJ 'Ashes to Ashes' Curator: Sydney Jenkins
Morris Museum, NJ 'Cultural Exploration' Curator: Willie Cole
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ 'The Insomnia Show'
2001
New Art Center, MA 'The Animal as Muse, Divine to Demonic'
Selected Catalogues
2015 Opus Hypnagogia at Morbid Anatomy Museum Stephen Romano Publications
2013 New Jersey Arts Annual: Contemporary Craft
2011 ‘Cute and Creepy’ catalogue Florida State University Museum
2008 Timeless: The Art of Drawing Morris Museum Exhibition Catalogue
2007 New Jersey Arts Annual, Noyes Museum of Art Catalogue
2003 Morris Museum 'Cultural Exploration' Exhibition Catalogue
Education
B.F.A. program at SUNY Purchase School of Visual Arts
Fellowships / Awards
2008 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award in Painting
2004 RCIPP (now Brodsky Center), New Jersey Printmaking Fellowship
Selected Art Fairs
Pulse Contemporary
Pulse Miami
Outsider Art Fair NYC
AAF NYC
Intuit Art Fair (Chicago)
Liste Cologne, Germany
Bridge Art Fair (London)
LA Art Fair
Next Art Fair, Chicago ('Flora and Fauna' -2 person show with Kate Clark )
Art on Paper Brussels
Palm Springs Art Fair
Art Miami
Contemporary Istanbul
Art South Hampton
Public and Museum Collections
New Jersey State Museum
Noyes Museum of Art
Morris Museum
Newark Public Library Print Collection
Hunterdon Museum of Art
Montclair Art Museum
Jersey City Museum
Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper
Selected Bibliography
Hanni, Margaret A., ed. Breaking New Ground in Art History Schwalb, Susan Reiventing Silverpoint: An Ancient Technique for the Twenty First Century New Academia Publishing (reproduction)
New York Times http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/west-of-chelsea-lori-field/?_r=0
Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/24/spotlight-on-lori-fields-_n_738913.html
Phantasmaphile http://www.phantasmaphile.com/2012/10/lori-field-show.html
http://www.phantasmaphile.com/2007/07/lori-field.html
Beautiful Decay http://beautifuldecay.com/2011/05/05/lori-fields-forest-stories/
Creep Machine http://www.creepmachine.com/events/madness-at-the-lodge-gallery.html
My Love For You http://myloveforyou.typepad.com/my_love_for_you/2008/05/lori-field.html
Bowery Boogie http://www.boweryboogie.com/2014/10/explore-artistic-side-madness-lodge-gallery-tomorrow/
Cute and Creepy http://www.carrieannbaade.com/cuteandcreepy/artists/lorifield.html
http://claireoliver.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lori-field-judith-schaechter-in-cute-and-creepy-at-museum-of-fine-arts-florida-state-university/
Accidental Mysteries http://accidentalmysteries.blogspot.com/2009/05/lori-field-angels-with-attitudes.html
Nashville Scene http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/sweetness-and-dark/Content?oid=1198164
Oly's Musings http://olysmusings.blogspot.com/2008/11/worth-second-look-lori-field-at-ktf.html