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LORY LOCKWOOD BIOGRAPHY RESUME INVITE SHOW STATEMENT PRESS
Gallery Walk II The New Orleans Art Review Spring-Summer 2007
Lory Lockwood’s current show entitled “Cultural Icons,” presents multiple aspects of our diverse and collective experience in today’s world. Her subjects include football players, motorcycles, and a brief interlude referencing successful gimmicks in the world of visual art. Her paintings attach cultural significance to subject matter which traditionally would not have suggested the search for meaning that once elevated the artist above a certain mainstream norm. These are not, however, traditional paintings, and as such, a new norm in the search fro meaning could be explored. Dangerous questions regarding taste, education, and history are undeniable while viewing this exhibition. Is a football game appropriate subject matter for an icon? Through the combination of her historical medium with her subject matter, there is a sardonic manipulation of forced intellectual discourse between culture and class which has the potential to broaden the experience of people from varying surroundings. The paintings are executed in oil, all with the glass like finish of photorealism. Color pops out of each designated shape, abstracting natural vision toward finely polished design. In “Opening Play,” a hoard of football players, mid-leap interact barbarically, creating a contemporary multi-figure composition. This painting successfully incorporates questions which come to mind while viewing the depicted “Cultural Icons".
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