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Shown above:
Park Place
by Lori Duckstein
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Lori Duckstein
All my life I’ve drawn and painted and made things. I have a degree in art history, with studio classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, papermaking, weaving, basketry, and printmaking.
I have a great appreciation for architecture and love the simple iconic house form, which I’ve used extensively in recent years. Using that form as a metaphor, I can place it in jeopardy, set it in a power position, juxtapose it with another house to express personal relationships, and generally create a portrait of human feeling and interaction – or lack thereof. My response to what I view as our culture’s unfettered population growth and overbuilding is usually expressed by images of crowded cityscapes and suburban monotony.
The figurative work reflects my interpretation of personal interiors, or the idealistic view of interior’s possibilities.
Other repeated images – trees, chairs, fish and fools – are part of a vocabulary of personal symbols as well.
For many years I worked almost exclusively in oil pastels, but in the last few years have also been painting in acrylics and experimenting with mixed media. Currently, I’m enjoying exploring the intense working of surfaces – layering, scraping, incising.
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