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COURTHOUSE GALLERY
Lean to Me: My Own Wilderness Fantasy
A solo exhibition / installation of new work by
Hilary
Lorenz
November 14 - December 18, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 14, 4 - 6 pm
This event is FREE and open to the public
Gallery Hours: Tues - Fri 12 - 5 pm, Sat 12 - 4 pm
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Hilary Lorenz
translates the physical and visceral experience of hiking remote
landscapes into visual imagery that takes the form of prints, drawings
and enveloping installations. Grounded in traditions of performance
walking, Lorenz’s artwork is shaped by the space she passes through
during long-distance runs and mountain climbing. Her drawings and prints
function as visual mapping specific to each location: abstract,
intuitive time-lines that mark a spatial journey of memory and change.
As the artist describes, “When I am carving a linoleum block or applying
watercolor to paper, I relive each step that I walked or ran through a
single knife-cut or brushstroke.” Even the act of operating a manual
printing press supports her strong passion for simple physical
repetition.
For the Courthouse Gallery, Lorenz continues to build on her previous
work by exploration the Adirondack State Park's numerous trails and high
points, as well the Northern New Mexico landscape where she spends
several months each year. Lorenz takes these wildlife explorations and
turns them into room-size environments consisting of linoleum
block-printed and cut paper that is collaged and layered to form
mountain, animals and camp sites. Because the work documents her
experiences, the artist is careful to portray only the mountains that
she has hiked or climbed. The ink drawn animals serve as a record of
Lorenz’s treks and simultaneously evokes a wilderness fantasy with
bears, coyotes, rabbits and moose. In this way, the artist attempts to
represent a longing for solitude, quietness and rural moments in the
big, bustling city.
Lorenz received an MA and MFA in printmaking and multi-media from the
University of Iowa and a BS in painting from Western Michigan
University. She has had solo exhibitions at Muriel Guépin Gallery,
Safe-T-Gallery and ARAMONA Gallery, all in New York City. Selected group
exhibitions include shows at Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Santa Fe
Art Institute; Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung; and Hunterdon Museum of
Art, Clinton, NJ. Lorenz has participated in numerous artist
residencies, including Wave Hill Artist Residency, Bronx, NY; ARTS
Tasmania International, Tasmania, Australia; Frans Masereel Centrum voor
Graphics, Kasterlee, Belgium; and National Seashore C-Scape. To learn
more about Hilary Lorenz and her work visit
www.hilarylorenz.com, and also her blog at
www.hilarylorenz.wordpress.com.
This exhibition is funded in part by Lake George Kayak
Company and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. The
Courthouse Gallery hours during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday
12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The
Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County
Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY.
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