Hope to see you at my upcoming two-person show with the amazing Joan Belmar!
Lori Anne Boocks / Abstract Artist
Monkeying Around in the Studio
9/27/13
artdc Gallery is having a show called Red. Work must be 70% or more red. It's a tough color for me so I appreciated the challenge. More details soon.
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| Joker Monkey (All Hail the King) |
A Portrait of Restraint
9/21/13
A new one, 42 x 30 inches. Really getting into adding metal through the canvas.
A new one, 42 x 30 inches. Really getting into adding metal through the canvas.
The Joys of a Studio Cat
9/21/13
Misty follows me almost everywhere. She doesn't mind the music I listen to (except Trent Reznor) or the charcoal dust in the air. She watches me paint. She jumps up in my lap as soon as I sit down for a break or to think about my next move on a canvas. God, I love this cat.
Misty follows me almost everywhere. She doesn't mind the music I listen to (except Trent Reznor) or the charcoal dust in the air. She watches me paint. She jumps up in my lap as soon as I sit down for a break or to think about my next move on a canvas. God, I love this cat.
Save the Date: Mathematics, Maps, and Myths Exhibits
9/14/2013
One Exhibit, Two Places, Two Receptions: I'll be showing with the amazingly talented Joan Belmar at two wonderful venues this fall. I hope you have a chance to stop by!
One Exhibit, Two Places, Two Receptions: I'll be showing with the amazingly talented Joan Belmar at two wonderful venues this fall. I hope you have a chance to stop by!
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| A Short History of Romance |
October 10 – November 10, 2013
Adah Rose Gallery
Adah Rose Gallery
Reception Saturday, October
12, 6:30-8:30pm
3766 Howard Ave, Kensington,
MD 20895
301-922-0162
adahrosegallery.com
adahrosegallery.com
October 19 – 27, 2013
Studio 1469
Reception Saturday, October 19, 6:30-8:30pm
1469 Harvard St NW Rear, Washington, DC
Reception Saturday, October 19, 6:30-8:30pm
1469 Harvard St NW Rear, Washington, DC
202-518-0804
about the artists
Lori Anne Boocks
Lori Anne Boocks is the keeper of stories. The passage of time creates layers of experience through the remembering, misremembering, and forgetting of stories. Each of these moments are important influences on her painting and thinking. In her newest work, text continues to serve as both subject matter and the basis for mark-making. Texture for each piece comes from her hands, brushwork, and a subtractive process where layers of poured washes are added to the surface, then partially removed with cloth. Her exploration of stories hinges on the juxtaposition of multiple directions of depth, including time, space, mathematics, and meaning.
Lori Anne Boocks earned a BFA from Old Dominion University in 1992. She has had solo exhibitions at Sitar Arts Center, Studio Gallery and the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center. She has also shown at BlackRock Center for the Arts, MAXgallery in Baltimore, artdc and the Maryland Federation of Art. She was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Bethesda Painting Awards, awarded a Living Gallery Residency at the Annmarie Arts Center in 2011 and won a first place award at the Festival of the Arts in Portsmouth, VA. This is her second show with Adah Rose Gallery.
Lori Anne Boocks is the keeper of stories. The passage of time creates layers of experience through the remembering, misremembering, and forgetting of stories. Each of these moments are important influences on her painting and thinking. In her newest work, text continues to serve as both subject matter and the basis for mark-making. Texture for each piece comes from her hands, brushwork, and a subtractive process where layers of poured washes are added to the surface, then partially removed with cloth. Her exploration of stories hinges on the juxtaposition of multiple directions of depth, including time, space, mathematics, and meaning.
Lori Anne Boocks earned a BFA from Old Dominion University in 1992. She has had solo exhibitions at Sitar Arts Center, Studio Gallery and the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center. She has also shown at BlackRock Center for the Arts, MAXgallery in Baltimore, artdc and the Maryland Federation of Art. She was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Bethesda Painting Awards, awarded a Living Gallery Residency at the Annmarie Arts Center in 2011 and won a first place award at the Festival of the Arts in Portsmouth, VA. This is her second show with Adah Rose Gallery.
Joan Belmar
In his recent paintings “Territories,” Joan explores psychological and political perspectives through the universality of maps. The series, based on maps from his native Chile, pay homage to the indigenous people who are so rarely referenced in anthropology and cartography. Finding himself suspended between the personal and universal as he rediscovered the maps of his childhood, Joan utilizes symbols, colors, drawings, grids, dots, and lines to search for freedom in a structured world. His works reference a time in our past that is impossible to recreate, but important to remember.
Joan Belmar was born in Santiago, Chile and emigrated to Spain where he began to paint professionally. Joan moved to Washington DC in 1999. In 2003 he was granted permanent residency in the U.S. based on extraordinary artistic merit. Joan has shown internationally and in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Project for the Arts, the American University Museum, Charles Krause Reporting, Addison Ripley, the World Bank, and was also a Mayor's Award Finalist in 2007 as an outstanding emerging artist. In 2009 the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded him an Artist Fellowship Grant and in 2010 and 2013 he was awarded an Individual Artist grant in Painting from the Maryland Arts Council. This is his second show with Adah Rose Gallery.
In his recent paintings “Territories,” Joan explores psychological and political perspectives through the universality of maps. The series, based on maps from his native Chile, pay homage to the indigenous people who are so rarely referenced in anthropology and cartography. Finding himself suspended between the personal and universal as he rediscovered the maps of his childhood, Joan utilizes symbols, colors, drawings, grids, dots, and lines to search for freedom in a structured world. His works reference a time in our past that is impossible to recreate, but important to remember.
Joan Belmar was born in Santiago, Chile and emigrated to Spain where he began to paint professionally. Joan moved to Washington DC in 1999. In 2003 he was granted permanent residency in the U.S. based on extraordinary artistic merit. Joan has shown internationally and in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Project for the Arts, the American University Museum, Charles Krause Reporting, Addison Ripley, the World Bank, and was also a Mayor's Award Finalist in 2007 as an outstanding emerging artist. In 2009 the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded him an Artist Fellowship Grant and in 2010 and 2013 he was awarded an Individual Artist grant in Painting from the Maryland Arts Council. This is his second show with Adah Rose Gallery.
Chesapeake Love Poem
9/7/13
Working in a variety of sizes these days, and some of these pieces are small and quiet, with rusted wire sewn through the canvas.
Chesapeake Love Poem is open to a few interpretations, maybe love for the bay itself or for the environment in general. Or maybe love for a person connected with that area: a summer romance or a bond that's stood the test of decades. The thin wires sewn at slightly different angles horizontally echo waves of water. They also help mask the words and stand for self-imposed edits or private thoughts.
Swarm uses honey-like colors and pays homage to honeycomb-building bees and mysterious math they use in construction and flight that we still not fully understand. It also hints about strategies and tactical calculations we humans make, particularly as we consider Syria.
Six Ways to Sunday is about childhood memories as a girl growing up in a Southern Virginia rural culture and the different connections I have to that world.
Working in a variety of sizes these days, and some of these pieces are small and quiet, with rusted wire sewn through the canvas.
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| Chesapeake Love Song |
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| Swarm (Dreaming of Bees) |
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| Six Ways to Sunday |
Paintings for Pain - CRPS Fundraiser
8/30/13
The Paintings for Pain project/fundraiser pairs six artists with individuals from the CRPS community to create paintings based on their experiences. In the first-of-its-kind event for RSDSA, the paintings will be shown on September 7, 2013 at the VisArts Gallery in Rockville, MD. The finished paintings will be donated to selected hospitals and treatment centers around the globe who specialize in care for individuals with CRPS.
I was honored to be invited to participate in this project and was paired with a teen who acquired Complex Regional Pain Syndrome after an injury. After the fundraising event, my painting There Are Days will become part of the Arts in Health collection at Monash Medical Centre in Victoria, Australia.
The Paintings for Pain project/fundraiser pairs six artists with individuals from the CRPS community to create paintings based on their experiences. In the first-of-its-kind event for RSDSA, the paintings will be shown on September 7, 2013 at the VisArts Gallery in Rockville, MD. The finished paintings will be donated to selected hospitals and treatment centers around the globe who specialize in care for individuals with CRPS.
I was honored to be invited to participate in this project and was paired with a teen who acquired Complex Regional Pain Syndrome after an injury. After the fundraising event, my painting There Are Days will become part of the Arts in Health collection at Monash Medical Centre in Victoria, Australia.
I named the painting “There Are Days” and tried to depict
through abstraction good and bad days that a CRPS patient goes through. Paired
with a teen girl, I talked with her about her CRPS journey and used numbers in
the piece to represent a 10-point pain scale. I tried to imagine myself in her
shoes: living with chronic pain, times when the pain feels off the scale, and
times when the pain lessens in intensity. The words in the painting are free
flowing and represent daily thoughts or maybe a personal diary someone dealing with
chronic pain might keep. They also symbolize the telling and re-telling of a
patient’s story to doctors, physical therapists, nurses, or other healthcare
providers as he or she keeps trying to find answers.
The two red-orange stripes in the lower half of the painting
represent the stilts that started this whole journey for the patient. She had
mentioned that having an orange awareness ribbon in the piece would have
special significance to her, so I included it in a non-traditional way and
invite the viewer to imagine that the solid red-orange stripe through the
middle of the work is the top loop of the ribbon and that the stilts are now
actually the tails of the ribbon having crossed behind the canvas to return to
the front of the painting like they are hugging it. By presenting the ribbon lying
flat like this, I wanted it to be the road the patient or anyone else with a
chronic pain disorder has to travel to advocate for the best possible care,
strive for and enjoy good days, and keep on keeping on when things get tough. I
also wanted it to stand for the embrace of supportive family and friends, and
even the global family of people with CRPS throughout the world.
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| There Are Days - 48 x 60 Inches - Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas |
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