Lori Field "The Sky is Falling"

Claire Oliver

poster for Lori Field "The Sky is Falling"

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Referencing pop culture, personal history and an awareness of those artists who have gone before her, Field develops haunting images that evoke moods and memories inspired by life in the real world. The artist’s new works in “The Sky is Falling” succeed in transcending the commonplace to enter the realm of the sublime or otherworldly. Seeing these works for the first time requires deciphering; the images can be both emotionally felt and intellectually understood. The artist’s human/animal hybrids lack self-consciousness and artifice; they exhibit human motives and foibles. The viewer is drawn in by the beautifully executed images and invited to decode the stories held within, although one must develop them with some amount of imagination; each painting acquires a highly personal connotation.
Combining layers of obsessively detailed colored pencil drawings done on translucent rice paper with layers of encaustic painting, Field’s fantastical visual imagery cannot be categorized as simply collage in the traditional sense. Although it is indeed and assemblage of pieces, each with their own story to tell, they are not reappropriated or repurposed; the works original intent was to create a non-linear narrative. Although this phrase is overused in today’s art world, in Field’s case is seems tailor made to describe the work.
Mining mythology and dream imagery to create her own visual language, Field’s symbols are mysterious and ambiguous suggestions of meanings portrayed in such a way as to express the inner state of the subject rather than explicit analogy or direct description. Her misfit characters have found a means of making the world their own, rather than conform to the confines of society. Each has found sanctuary amongst the very absurdities which have which have made them social castoffs, suggesting that there is a place for each of us; ultimate redemption and hope for a positive future of the human race.

Lori Field is the recipient of a New Jersey State Fellowship for the Arts; her work is collected by many national art museums including the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Jersey State Museum and the Hunterdon Museum of Art. Ms. Field’s work has been exhibited in many international venues including the TAM Cultural Center Stuttgart, Germany and the International Print Center, New York.

[Image: Lori Field "Half the Sky is Falling” (2010) Colored Pencil and Encaustic, 36 x 36 x 2.25 in.]

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from September 09, 2010 to October 07, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-09-09 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Lori Field

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