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