CURRENT
The AAF in Los Angeles
with Micaela Gallery,
Jan. 18 - 22, 2012
http://www.affordableartfair.u

RECENT
Dazzling and Bright
Packer Schopf Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Solo show - paintings
Sept. 9 - Oct. 29, 2011 (extended)
opens Fri. Sept. 9, 2011 5-8pm
http://www.packergallery.com/p

Chicago Artists Month 2011- Featured Artist
http://www.chicagoartistsmonth

Paintings and Works on paper at
Gallery Brown, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.gallerybrown.com

The Affordable Art Fair, NY, NY
with MIcaela Gallery,
May 5 - 8, 2011
http://www.micaela.com/home/Pe

LA ART SHOW
with Micaela Gallery
LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Jan.19 - 23, 2011
http://www.laartshow.com

ArtSlant/Rackroom Pick:
Lorraine Peltz - Light from Above
Essay by Maria Porges
http://www.artslant.com/chi/ar

Printworks Gallery
Chicago, IL - 12/3/10 -1/31/11
http://www.printworkschicago.c

Winter Salon
MIcaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nov. 4 - Dec. 31, 2010
http://www.micaela.com/home/Ma

ArtMoco Feature: My State of the Art - Lorraine Peltz
by Sabine Modder, Aug. 28, 2010
http://mocoloco.com/archives/0

ArtHamptons, Bridgehampton,
NY with Cheryl McGinnis Gallery
July 9 - 11, 2010
http://www.arthamptons.com
http://www.cherylmcginnisgalle

Scope Basel, Basel, Switzerland
with Micaela Gallery
June 15 - 19, 2010
http://69.24.73.123/SCOPE/inde
http://issuu.com/lorrainepeltz

Chandeliers, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL.
opening Thursday May 6, 2010
May 6 - June 5, 2010
http://www.artnet.com/Gallerie
http://www.rosenbaumcontempora

New Work, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
March 4 - May 1, 2010
http://www.micaela.com

Lush and Radiant
Galerie Califia, Czech Republic
March 19 - April 19, 2010
http://www.galeriecalifia.net/

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

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
http://www.incorniciarte.it/mo
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 current paintings use the remembered image of a particular chandelier and through its simultaneous resolution and dissolution shift the focus to memory, which can be both melancholic and exuberant. In these paintings the chandelier conjures a remembered culture. In others she joins that image with patterned flowers, starbursts, and decorative flourishes to present the now – particularly women’s fantasy and desires. Peltz links these various painting languages, including recognizable imagery, signs and symbols, and painterly abstraction, to mimic 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 of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 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.”
Peltz has had numerous solo shows and been included in many group exhibitions including at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Galerie Piltzer, Paris, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC, Arden Gallery, Boston, Olga Dollar Gallery and Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Gosia Koscielak Gallery, Printworks Gallery, Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, the Rockford Art Museum, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, the Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, the Elmhurst Art Museum, Incorniciarte Gallery in Verona, Italy 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. 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
Packer Schopf Gallery Chicago http://packergallery.com, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC http://www.cherylmcginnisgalle
Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA,http://www.micaela.com and
Gallery Brown, Los Angeles,http://www.gallerybrown.com/ar