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Lorraine Shemesh | |
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| Born | Jersey City, New Jersey, United States |
| Education | Tyler School of Art (MFA), Boston University (BFA) |
| Known for | Painting, drawing, figurative art, ceramics |
| Awards | National Academy of Design, Boston University, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts |
| Website | Lorraine Shemesh |
Lorraine Shemesh is an American artist whose practice focuses on painting, drawing, and ceramics.[1][2][3] Since the early 1990s, she has created investigations of the human form that balance contemporary realism with an abstract expressionist concern for gesture, rhythm and pattern.[4][5][6] Her best-known series depict active swimmers in pools viewed from above and underwater or intertwined, costumed dancers set in ambiguous, compressed spaces.[7][8][9] In the 2000s, her work has increasingly moved towards abstraction, with figures dissolving into faithfully rendered optical phenomena or geometric patterning.[10][11][12] Describing these qualities, Art in America critic Jonathan Goodman wrote, "being true to nature enables Shemesh to record a dazzling array of painterly gestures, some of them squarely within the tradition of Abstract Expressionism ... Her use of abstract effects in the service of representation is striking and makes her art complex."[1]
Shemesh's work has been exhibited at institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[13] Bronx Museum of Art, National Academy of Design,[14] Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA), Museum of the City of New York,[15] and Musée de Carouge (Switzerland).[10] Her work belongs to the public collections of the National Academy Museum, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and Rhode Island School of Design Museum, among others.[16][14][17]
- ^ a b Goodman, Jonathan. "Lorraine Shemesh at Allan Stone," Art in America, December 2000, p. 122.
- ^ Little, Carl. "Lorraine Shemesh at Allan Stone." Art in America, September 1988, p. 189.
- ^ Bascove, A. "Lorraine Shemesh – Inside Out," Art Fuse Magazine, May 9, 2016.
- ^ Johnson, Ken. "Lorraine Shemesh at Allan Stone," The New York Times, May 26, 2000, p. 34. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
- ^ McCarthy, Gerard. "Lorraine Shemesh at Allan Stone," Art in America, November 2009, p. 197–8.
- ^ Boyle, Molly. "Patterning en Pointe: Lorraine Shemesh's Interstitial Paintings and Vessels," NAD Now, July 17, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Stoppelbein, Annie. "Lorraine Shemesh: The New York Artist's Painted Pools Series Makes A Splash," Nashville Arts, August 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Webster, Andrew. "You Have to See How this Artist Paints Water," Fine Art Connoisseur, May 12, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Kuspit, Donald. "Lorraine Shemesh's Dancers: The Figure as Grand Abstract Gesture," Lorraine Shemesh: intersections, New York: Allan Stone Gallery, 2009, p. 7-14. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
- ^ a b Kennedy, Patrick. "Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary." Esprit, Summer 2006, p. 4–5.
- ^ McCormack, Ed. "Lorraine Shemesh: The Weight of the Body Poised Against the Dance of Paint," Gallery & Studio, April/May 2009, p. 5.
- ^ Nash, Steve. "Suspended: Lorraine Shemesh's Underwater States of Being," Lorraine Shemesh: Inside Out, New York: Gerald Peters Gallery, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Martin, Alvin. American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art /New York: Harry Abrams, 1986. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
- ^ a b National Academy of Design. Out of Many: Lorraine Shemesh, Events. 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
- ^ Karmel, Pepe. "Marginal Areas of New York City's Landscape," The New York Times, August 11, 1995, p. C20. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ National Academy Museum. Trellis, Lorraine Shemesh, Artworks. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ RISD Museum. Lorraine Shemesh, Alba-Runci, Collection. Retrieved August 15, 2022.