Lorraine Glessner Portfolios

These pieces begin with a dense under-painting of swirls, clumps and lines, which reference roots, veins and the various systems of underlying channels integral to life. This framework serves as infrastructure for subsequent layers of recorded marks in the form of stained fabrics and papers, rubbings, tracings and drawings taken from city surfaces and environments. Along with my intuitive responses to them in paint, the layers of marks merge, interconnect, meld, splinter and discontinue only to begin again as another series of marks. Adding to this narrative are clusters of collaged images and patterns from high-end fashion and interior design magazines, street photographs and found materials, which interact with and contextualize the markings as well as speak to our excessive wants, needs, temptations and desires as a culture. In a continuous process of order and chaos, accrual and removal, concealment and exposure, the layers of paint and material create new narratives, which look through and into time, reminding us of perpetuation, synthesis and regeneration.

2010 rows series

2009-2010 down 6th street series

2009-2010 sewn drawings

2008-2010 paint on paint series

selected work 2003-2008

2008 it entered series

2007 Scars Series

2007 Nexus Series

Small works