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Lora Fosberg

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Lora Fosberg

STATEMENT:

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.

RESUME:
Education:

1992

M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1988 B.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Residencies:
2002 Frans Masereel Art Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
2000 Oxbow, School of the Art Institute, Saugatauk, MI
1999 Oxbow, School of the Art Institute, Saugatauk, MI
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2018 What is not is isn’t is, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2017 I would lie to me, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Love Loves the Unlovable, Indiana University, NW, Gary, IN
More Trees Please, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL  
2015 Everything Looks Perfect From Far Away, Lubeznick Center For the Arts, Michigan City, IN
2014 The End of Absurdity, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
Everything and Nothing, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 The Miracle of the Actual, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fallible memories and wayward fictions, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Do It Now, Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010 You Can’t Fall Off the Floor, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Live or Live, Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2009 Feel the Now, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 A Field Guide to Forgetting, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 For Now , Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dystopia for Daydreamers, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2006 For Now , Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dystopia for Daydreamers, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2003 Greener Grass, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
2002 Really Huge, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Both Ends burning, Grand Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 More is More, Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 One Hand on the Dark Side, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
1995 The Now, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021 Zg Winter Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 The New (ab)Normal, Zg Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rotations, group show, Glow, Chicago, IL
2019 Fun, Fun, Fun, Zg Summer Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Curators Create, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2018 Typeforce 8 Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL 
2016 Typeforce 7 Co-Prosperity Sphere, Bridgeport, IL
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2015 Saving the Dunes, Artist’s Paths, Marshall J. Gardner Art Center, Miller Beach, IN 
The Steamroller Printmaking Project, Lubeznick Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
2014 Not just another pretty face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 
2012 The Three, wv15, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2011 Walnut Ink Gallery, Inaugural Show, Michigan City, IN 
Wishing You Love and Happiness and Curiosity Forever, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
(S)edition, curated by Marc Pascale, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art. Grand Rapids, MI
Typeforce, Co-prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
ART Chicago, represented by Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
NEXT art fair, represented by Pele Prints, St. Louis, MO
Interface, Center of Creative Arts (COCA), curated by Pele Prints, St. Louis, MO
2009 ART Chicago, represented by Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 
2009 ART Chicago, represented by Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 
NEXT art fair, represented by Pele Prints, St. Louis, MO
Spellbound, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Emmett Kerrigan and Lora Fosberg, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Clouds Et. Al, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
ART Chicago, represented by Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
NEXT art fair, represented by Pele Prints, St. Louis, MO
Red Dot art fair, represented by Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pulse art fair Miami, represented by Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami, FL
2007 44 New Drawings, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
ART Chicago, represented by Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kent State University with Pierogi Flat Files, Drawing Invitational, Kent, OH
2006 Art LA, Linda Warren Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Drawing No Conclusions, Dominic Molon, Assoc. Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Layer on Layer: A Collage Show, Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
2005 ART Chicago, represented by Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fragile, handle with care, Museum Works Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Species, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Highlights, Junc Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Politics as Usual, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Natural History, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 10th Annual Figurative Small Works Show, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
14th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 
1999 Dia des Los Muertos, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Group Show, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
By-cycles, Maritain Art Institute, Loveland, OH
Zusammen, Milktooth, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, The Pier Show, Chicago, IL
1998 Los Muertos, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Chicago- The Pier Show, represented by Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Revelations: Artists Look at Religion, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1996 Moving the Body Forward, Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL
Summer Rocks, World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Grab Bag, curated by Don Baum, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago.The Pier Show, 1995, represented by Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bibliography:
2019 Lora Fosberg, VoyageChicago.com, July 1, 2019
2015 Lora Fosberg, review by Elliot Reichert, NewCity Chicago, July 29, 2015
2014 Lora Fosberg, Critic’s Picks: Chicago, review by James Yood, Art Ltd Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2014
Lora Fosberg, The End, review by Nicole White, NewCity Chicago, Jan. 7, 2014
2011 “Tripe Threat,” AlbuquerqueJournal.com, October 14, 2011
“Friendship Makes for Beautiful Art at Restaurant Tallent, WFIU, Artists&Culture, April 5, 2011
2010 Lora Fosberg, National Reviews, Chicago, review by Ruth Lopez, ArtNews, December 2010
Lora Fosberg, review by Paul Germanos, Chicago Critical, August 20, 2010
Falling with Lora Fosberg, review by Damien James, Bad at Sports podcast,  July 26, 2010
Lora Fosberg, review by Lauren Weinberg, TimeOut Chicago, July 20, 2010

2008

Lora Fosberg, review by Jason Foumberg, NewCity Chicago, August 1, 2008
“Clouds, et al” review by Lauren Weinberg, TimeOut Chicago, Issue 175, July 3-9, 2008
“Giant turtle and digital world dinosaurs unite” review by Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, 7/4/2008

2007

“Danse Party” review by Jason Foumberg, NewCity Chicago, July 2, 2007

2006

“Little Things Add Up” review by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, June 15, 2006
Public Installations:
2014 CH Distillery, Chicago, IL
2013 Brindille Restaurant, Chicago, IL 
2012 Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH 
2004 Tank Restaurant, Chicago, IL 
2000 Naha Restaurant, Chicago, IL
Public and Private Collections:

-Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH
-Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL
-Kirkland & Ellis, San Francisco, IL
-Ogletree Deakins,  Chicago, IL

-Jim and Linda Ginsberg, Chicago, IL
-Jeff and Linda Hammes, Chicago, IL
-Lewis and Susan Manilow, Chicago, IL
-Janice Cantor and Thomas McCormick, Chicago, IL
-Linda and Dennis Myers, Chicago, IL
-Carrie Nahabedian, Chicago, IL
-Howard Tullman, Chicago, IL


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