Anne Finkelstein

Out of the Blue, hard-edge architectural painting

2021

Lori Larusso’s Flower Painting 25 is a striking example of her precision-based, hard-edged painting practice that explores everyday objects with conceptual depth. Rendered in acrylic...

Lori Larusso, an American visual artist, explores themes of domesticity in her work, including this stunning flower painting series. By using layers of bright acrylic paint, often with high-gloss varnish, Larusso's paintings reflect on ordinary household items...

Lori Larusso, an American visual artist, explores themes of domesticity in her work, including this stunning flower painting series. By using layers of bright acrylic paint, often wi...

Lori Larusso makes paintings and installations that explore issues of class and gender and how both reflect and shape culture. She has exhibited her work widely in the US and abroad ...

"Strengths and Weaknesses" is a portrait exploring several elements and strategies that fascinate the artist – notably the performance anxiety induced by simply being an artist, staring down the freight train of art history as it hurtles toward you every time you pick up a brush. Luck? Talent? Maybe. There are signposts and guides in this painting, of course (Cubism! Surrealism! Brancusi! Guston!), but they can clobber you too if you're not careful. Even the phrase "strengths and weaknesses" smacks of compromises and rationalization – deadly to an artist looking to construct their own integral world. "Strengths and Weaknesses" is an acrylic and charcoal on canvas measuring 54" tall by 54" wide. It was included in the artist's solo show "Comedy Cellar" at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York City in July 2018. (See last photograph for an installation view.) From Daniel Gerwin – "Schenck’s color is vibrant, wild, saturated to the point of overheating, and altogether brilliant in the balancing of hues, temperatures, shapes, and color quantities. The paintings have a remarkable coherence for their dizzying juxtaposition of so many small chromatic passages." (Essay: The Anxiety and the Ecstasy) Peter Schenck...

"Toys In The Attic" addresses subject matter that continues to fascinate the artist – on one hand the tools of painting, drawing and art making – brushes, pens, pencils and crayons. ...

"The Conversation" is an oil painting on canvas measuring 54" tall by 54" wide, and a key artwork among Peter Schenck's many remarkable paintings address...

Photo-realist still life painting of lush green lotus plants on a soft grey sky background "Lotus Number Twenty-Eight", painted by Frank DePietro in 201...