CURRENT:
Contemporary Works from the Cleve Carney Collection
Elmhurst Art Museum
Elmhurst, IL
Oct. 4, 2009 - Jan. 3, 2010
http://www.elmhurstartmuseum.o

Just Good Art
The Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
Oct. 3 - Oct. 24, 2009
http://www.hydeparkart.org

RECENT
Faculty Projects
Rymer Gallery at the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago
Aug. 18 - Sept. 25
http://www.saic.edu/art_design

Then and Now
New Paintings
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery
New York, NY
June 29 - Aug. 14, 2009
extended through Sept. 10
www.cherylmcginnisgallery.com
http://mocoloco.com/art/archiv

Excellent Hostess
Paintings and Works on Paper
Galleria Incorniciarte
Verona, Italy
June 12 - 25
www.incorniciarte.it
Artist Talk: Biblioteca Civica Verona http://portale.comune.verona.i

Vault Series-Small Paintings
New Bedford Art Museum
New Bedford, MA
June 7 - Sept. 5
http://www.newbedfordartmuseum

Micaela Gallery
San Francisco, CA
Cold + Hot 2009, June - Aug. 31, 2009
www.micaela.com

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 of Tinderbox Lawn
by poet Carol Guess, Rose Metal Press Publ.

Lorraine Peltz’s paintings are complex ruminations on the nature of private identity and public persona. Using imagery culled from both personal history and the contemporary moment, they reference both past and present. The chandelier conjures a remembered culture and the patterned flowers, starbursts, and decorative flourishes present the now – particularly women’s fantasies and desires, through pure painterly pleasure. Peltz joins various painting languages including recognizable imagery, signs and symbols, and painterly abstraction, mimicking how information comes to us and how meaning is made, bit by bit -- real life alongside memory, poetry next to prose, in order to illuminate the larger issues surrounding identity and place that concern us all. Her works become landscapes of both the exterior world and an interior space of dream, desire, and memory. In a recent essay about the work Lisa Wainwright, 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 has had numerous solo 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, the Elmhurst Art Museum, and many others. In 2008 the exhibition Excellent Hostess: Selected Paintings: 1993-2008 as part of the Outstanding Midwestern Artists Series was held at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Munster, IN and this past summer she had solo shows at the Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC, and at Incorniciarte Gallery in Verona, Italy. Exhibitions are planned for this spring at Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA and Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Fla. 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 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, Koscielak Gallery, Chicago, IL, and Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL.