UPCOMING.....................
Pleasure Paintings:
Phyllis Bramson, Lorraine Peltz, and Keer Tanchak,
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL,
Jan. 25 - March 22. 2009
PURPLE PLUMS for CAROL GUESS'S PROSE POEMS
My painting Purple Plums is the cover art for the just published
book, Tinderbox Lawn by poet Carol Guess,
Rose Metal Press Publ.
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery
New York, NY
Spring/Summer 2009
Lorraine Peltz’s paintings present ideas about place and identity. Culled from both personal history and the public contemporary moment, they initiate a conversation about past and present. The recent inclusion of the chandelier presents a certain past culture and the patterned flowers, mandalas, starbursts, and decorative embellishments reference the now, particularly painterly pleasure, women's fantasies and desires, and a larger public history of women’s work, textile design, and the pattern and decorative movement of the 70’s. By joining these various languages - recognizable imagery, signs and symbols, and painterly abstraction, Peltz mimics and considers how information comes to us and how meaning is made, bit by bit -- real life alongside memory, poetry next to prose. Simultaneously contemplative and celebratory, restrained and exuberant, they are meant to be seductive landscapes of both the exterior world and an interior space of dream, desire, and memory. In a recent essay about the work Lisa Wainwright, Contemporary Art Historian and Dean at the SAIC, has written: “Both of nature and from culture, her icons speak to the polemic between essentialism and social construction that still grips feminist discourse. They are a mix of aesthetic delight and conceptual reading.”
Lorraine Peltz was born in Brooklyn, NY and received her MFA from the University of Chicago and her BFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has had numerous one person shows and been included in many group exhibitions including at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Galerie Piltzer in Paris, Arden Gallery in Boston, Olga Dollar Gallery in San Francisco, Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, Gosia Koscielak Gallery in Chicago, Printworks Gallery in Chicago, the Rockford Art Museum, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, the Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, and many others. The exhibition Excellent Hostess: Selected Paintings: 1993-2008, part of the Outstanding Midwestern Artists Series opened with an accompanying catalogue, in July at The Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Munster, IN, and exhibitions are planned at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, at the Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and in Verona, Italy. Peltz lives and works in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lorraine Peltz is represented by
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and
Koscielak Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Pleasure Paintings:
Phyllis Bramson, Lorraine Peltz, and Keer Tanchak,
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL,
Jan. 25 - March 22. 2009
PURPLE PLUMS for CAROL GUESS'S PROSE POEMS
My painting Purple Plums is the cover art for the just published
book, Tinderbox Lawn by poet Carol Guess,
Rose Metal Press Publ.
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery
New York, NY
Spring/Summer 2009
Lorraine Peltz’s paintings present ideas about place and identity. Culled from both personal history and the public contemporary moment, they initiate a conversation about past and present. The recent inclusion of the chandelier presents a certain past culture and the patterned flowers, mandalas, starbursts, and decorative embellishments reference the now, particularly painterly pleasure, women's fantasies and desires, and a larger public history of women’s work, textile design, and the pattern and decorative movement of the 70’s. By joining these various languages - recognizable imagery, signs and symbols, and painterly abstraction, Peltz mimics and considers how information comes to us and how meaning is made, bit by bit -- real life alongside memory, poetry next to prose. Simultaneously contemplative and celebratory, restrained and exuberant, they are meant to be seductive landscapes of both the exterior world and an interior space of dream, desire, and memory. In a recent essay about the work Lisa Wainwright, Contemporary Art Historian and Dean at the SAIC, has written: “Both of nature and from culture, her icons speak to the polemic between essentialism and social construction that still grips feminist discourse. They are a mix of aesthetic delight and conceptual reading.”
Lorraine Peltz was born in Brooklyn, NY and received her MFA from the University of Chicago and her BFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has had numerous one person shows and been included in many group exhibitions including at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Galerie Piltzer in Paris, Arden Gallery in Boston, Olga Dollar Gallery in San Francisco, Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, Gosia Koscielak Gallery in Chicago, Printworks Gallery in Chicago, the Rockford Art Museum, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, the Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, and many others. The exhibition Excellent Hostess: Selected Paintings: 1993-2008, part of the Outstanding Midwestern Artists Series opened with an accompanying catalogue, in July at The Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Munster, IN, and exhibitions are planned at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, at the Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and in Verona, Italy. Peltz lives and works in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lorraine Peltz is represented by
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and
Koscielak Gallery, Chicago, IL.
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