Lori Nozick

ARTIST STATEMENT

My art is tactile and deeply referential; materials of the primal earth, structures we create and discard, reclaimed and existing outside a fixed moment.  A tension and balance between security and impermanence echo, offering hidden narratives and exposed layers, examining ongoing cycles of cohesion and disintegration.  This defines the basis of much of my temporal, site-specific sculpture installations. Works seem solid yet permeable, ancient and transient, capturing the dynamics of social and environmental change, informed by archaeology, myths and scientific conditions. My wall reliefs reflect this quite literally in their raw construction.

Art historian and critic Robert C. Morgan has written, “…structure signifies an inventory of shapes and elements that pull together even as they move in different directions…”

My artwork investigates the demarcation of real and imposed boundaries.  Deeply resonant, walls provide protection, engender separation, imprisonment, or open for freedom. Utilizing nautical, geological, and historic maps underline and symbolize those boundaries, visual markers with collage and drawing to evoke a sense of place.  The archetypal images and forms of my work, the place or site, function as a repository of individual and collective moments and memory, forming a visceral bridge to experience a blending of time-frames, real and imagined.  

BIO

Lori Nozick was born in the northeast US,  and lived in New York for 25 years.  She is currently living in Miami Beach. Ms. Nozick holds a BFA from Philadelphia College of Art, and an MFA from Pratt Institute.  The artist has exhibited her work in galleries and museums, done site-specific installations, both temporary and permanent, interior and exterior,  been awarded public art commissions, and has received international, national, state, and foundation grants and fellowships for her work, including the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant.

Ms. Nozick was in a traumatic accident two months before the virus hit, and during this time, she has produced over 40 artworks, a series called “the Quarantine Collages”. The artist was invited to the residency, “Proyecto En Sitio 2nd Edition”, in November 2018 at La Coyotera Taller Estudio, Umecuaro, Michoacan State, Mexico, creating “Masts and Anchors”, a site-specific sculpture/earthworks with all local and natural materials.  Dirt and cement were mixed by my feet on the site and cast into earth-dug molds, along with local stone and logs. Ms. Nozick created an installation of walls at RAW/Art Basel Miami 2017, a light installation for the Bass Museum Contemporary Art In Unexpected Places in 2015 and invited to do a Featured Project at SCOPE Miami 2014, an interactive monumental sculpture with reclaimed architectural elements, colored acrylic panels, and an 8’ curved staircase. The artist’s public art commission , “Pensacola Beacons”, sponsored by the FL Art in State Buildings Programs, is a series of 3 light beacons at the UWF College of Business Plaza,  Pensacola, FL.  Ms. Nozick was honored in 2006 for “Luce Et Vita Universae”, selected as one of the Best Public Art Projects of the Year by the Americans For the Art Public Art Review, commissioned by the NYC % For Art, Public Art In Public School/SITES Program, and the School Construction Authority. A photo interview in Sculpture Magazine, "The Girl Who Liked to Smell Dirt", was published in the January-February 2012 issue.  Ms. Nozick had a solo exhibition of her drawings and sculpture at berlin art  scouts Gallery in Berlin, Germany in September 2010 and gave a lecture at the US Embassy in Berlin.  In recent exhibitions and installations, the artist has used reclaimed architectural elements and wood, solar energy and LED lighting, salt blocks, mud pigments, tar, dirt, charcoal burnt wood, sound and moving water as elements in her work, with increasing consciousness of renewable sources in art. Ms. Nozick has taught and lectured at William Patterson University, Pratt Institute, and the American University in Corciano, Italy.  She was an Adjunct Professor at MDC and an Artist in Residence with Perez Art Museum Miami, Institute of Contemporary Art/Miami, Arts4Learning Program, and done private mentoring and portfolio preparation, as well as arts workshops and lectures. She also has a design business doing decorative and unique surfaces for residential and public spaces, as well as specialized items, including unique map drawings, collages, working with business, museums, designers, and real estate developers.

ARTIST LINKS

Website:  www.lorinozick.com  

Instagram: @lorinozick

Gallery links: www.berlinartscouts.de