Lori Earley : un peintre féminin majeur de l’art contemporain

Par Julie Cadilhac –  bscnews.fr (Traduction: Becky Barnes) / Lori Earley was born and raised in New York.  She studied there at the School of Visual Arts where her mastery of technique in oil and graphite was soon recognised by her peers, both in the United States and abroad. Her stylized, elongated subjects echoed Mannerist elements and played on the dramatic lighting effects of the Baroque period. She drew attention from numerous established artists, collectors, galleries and from 2004 has frequently exhibited her work.

She is one of the forerunners of a burgeoning new art movement, figurative surrealism, and as her recognition as a leading female contemporary master painter grew, it opened doors to celebrated galleries in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York City and London.

Lori Earley confides that the figures she paints reflect herself but that they are self portraits which differ according to her mood.

These oil paintings are « a combination of classical realism with an element of personal distortion This distortion comes from my innate desire to transform my emotions into tangible media that express what I feel, not what I see. » A concrete example? One day when she was at school, she was asked to paint a still life from a boring display of bottles on a table. She imagined that they had all melted and painted them the way she envisioned them in her head.

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