Il 10 febbraio si apre una mostra di Elaine Lorenz, veneta d'America al BELSKIE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, a Closter, nel New Jersey.

Elaine Lorenz is intrigued by shape and form, mass and volume.
The backbone of the earth bedrock and the erosion into cliffs and canyons caused by water has been a major influence for her work. Her sculpture is tangible and touchable, but it can also contain an emotional experience. She captures a sense of connection with the earth, renewal of life and a feeling of joyfulness. Her work hovers between the abstract and the representational. At other times she is interested in more intimate observations on nature, such as trees growing out of crevices in rocks, mushroom pushing through asphalt paths and plants growing up through cinders of a volcano. The work in this exhibition shows both aspects and is crafted in clay, both stoneware and raku fired.

Elaine Lorenz – Biography

Elaine Lorenz’s solo exhibitions include the Fulcrum Gallery, NY, NY; Bertha Urdang Gallery, NY, NY; the NJ State Museum in Trenton; Artspace, Richmond, VA; the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; Artyard, Denver, CO; Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ; University College Art Gallery, Fairleigh Dickenson University, Teaneck, NJ; OCCC Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ and the 141 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY. Elaine Lorenz’s sculptures are in private, public and corporate collections ranging from Alabama, California, Florida, New Jersey and Texas.

She has exhibited her work in numerous group exhibitions and sculpture sites throughout the US among them the Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; The Fredonia Sculpture Project, Fredonia, NY; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin; Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, TN; The Hunterdon, Morris, Newark and Montclair Museums, NJ; Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead; and the International Sculpture Center, Washington, DC.
Awards include: a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grants in 1988 and 1999, Athena Foundation Grant for Socrates Sculpture Park, a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, and a NJ State Sculpture Commission for the NJ Environmental Center Headquarters at DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst, NJ. Elaine Lorenz received a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1997. She is a tenured professor at William Paterson University and the VP of Exhibitions for the
Sculptors Guild, a NYC based organization with national and international members.

Belskie Museum of Art & Science
280 High Street, Closter, New Jersey 07624
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ADMISSION IS FREE

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