Lori Nozick

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

In an increasingly transient world, we live with an underlying sense of dislocation, a fractured existence piecing together our lives. Concurrent with my own voyage through time and geography, my work explores journeys, through unexpected passages leading nowhere in our quest to return home, while we question what home itself means. The forms and reference of my work are at the edge of architectural structures and organic materials and sometimes primitive approaches, an intuitive dynamic informed by the materials and transcending one object from its’ history to new imagery, new form. My work is both highly tactile and deeply referential, with materials evoking our primal earth, to structures we create and discard, to our history and traditions – existing outside a fixed moment. A tension and balance between security and impermanence echo in the materials chosen and the forms created, which offer a mixing of hidden narrative and exposed layers, examining ongoing cycles of cohesion and disintegration. Works can seem solid (though they may have hidden vulnerabilities), permeable, ancient and transient, capturing the inherent dynamics of human structure and social and environmental change, both physically and symbolically, echoing the evolution of every culture. My large-scale and intimate drawings and collages use maps and found images, and architectural drawings that recreate a recognizable structure whose scale and perspective is distorted or exaggerated. I also employ...

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