Join us on Thursday, November 15, at 12:20 PM for our Noon Time Talk with Lora Fosberg.
With an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fosberg will introduce her background in studio art and her current endeavors as Exhibition Director for the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City. Two of Fosberg’s gouache paintings are currently on view in the 40th Elkhart Juried Regional at the Midwest Museum of American Art until December 22, 2018.
More about Lora Fosberg
Lora Fosberg is a Chicago based artist whose works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her focus is painting, printmaking, and recently sculpture. Her work is focused on representing the now in whatever form that takes. She is currently represented by Linda Warren Projects in Chicago and Jack Fischer Gallery in San Franciso.
Artist statement-Lora Fosberg- 2018
I utilize metaphor, memory, iconography, and narrative in my work to express the complexities as well as the banalities of our existence. My intent is to create a universal language using symbols, iconography, and text derived from everyday life, thus enabling me to reach a wider audience.
My process is anthropological: objects and events are experienced, assembled, and recorded. The subjects of my work are the intricacies and intimacies of life: memories, relationships, emotions, and perceptions of the mundane. The specific and the generalized, the personal and the universal, all hold equal importance in my work. Appearing repeatedly throughout my practice are isolated, lonesome moments and epic disasters, alternated with quiet instances of bliss, and scenes of collective rebuilding and symbolic growth.
I am attempting to disarm the viewer with imagery and language that allows them to regress to a particular memory, a specific moment of understanding, a particular conflict, an absence or connection to others, or to nature. I am interested in enlarging emotional possibility.
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This Noon Time Talk is a part of an ongoing series of educational discussions and films held every Thursday at the Midwest Museum of American Art.
Admission: $5. MMAA Members Admitted Free.