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September 5 - October 11, 2025
opening reception: Friday, September 5th from 4 to 7pm

LORA FOSBERG

I Love it Here, Let's Leave; in Search of the Hill
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Lora Fosberg is an American artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, printmaking, drawing, and sculpture. She received her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992.

Lora Fosberg’s work speaks to the power of form, the capacity of iconography to create a universal language that communicates the banalities and complexities of the human experience. Fosberg’s process is deeply anthropological, bound up in the intricacies and intimacies of human life—memories, emotions, our relationships with others and with nature. Disarming her viewers through familiar imagery and language in her work, often rendered in an accessible, animated manner, with a touch of cheeky humor, Fosberg affords them the space to regress to a particular memory, a moment of understanding, a conflict, an absence, a connection to another person, or to nature.​

Her work has been featured in venues across the Midwest and West Coast including the South Bend Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center and international venues in Copenhagen and London.

Fosberg’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Illinois State Museum, Eaton Corporation, and Kirkland & Ellis, as well as numerous private collections. She lives and works in Michigan City, Indiana.
Lora Fosberg - "The cave of illusion," 2025, gouache / plaster / wax on panel, 60 x 48 in.
Lora Fosberg - "SEARCHING FOR THE HILL," 2025, gouache / plaster / wax on panel with foam clay and filament, 36 x 48 in.
Lora Fosberg - "My eyes are open but they don't see very far," 2025, gouache / plaster / wax on panel with foam clay and filament, 48 x 36 in.
Lora Fosberg - "I love this place. Let’s leave.," 2025, gouache / plaster / wax on panel, 48 x 36 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Still looking," 2025, gouache / plaster / wax on panel with foam clay and filament, 48 x 36 in.
Lora Fosberg - "We are all inside this dream," 2025, gouache / plaster / wax on panel, 36 x 36 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Everything is tangled in the STRING of everything else," 2025, gouache / plaster / wax on panel, 16 x 12 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Today is the day we’ve waited for," 2025, gouache / plaster / wax on panel, 16 x 12 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Found (YOU/ME)," 2025, gouache on paper, 38 x 28 in. (image) / 42½ x 32½ in. (framed)
Lora Fosberg - "Found object," 2025 gouache on paper, 24 x 32 in. (image) / 29 x 35 in. (framed)
Lora Fosberg - "Help. I'm Alive.," 2024, gouache on paper 22 x 28 in. 2024, gouache on paper 22 x 28 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Isn't It Just Like The Present To Be Showing Up Like That," 2024, gouache on paper 22 x 28 in. 2024, gouache on paper 22 x 28 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Drum Beat," 2010, xerox transfer on found board with wax, 8¾ x 7 in. (image) / 13½ x 11¾ in. (frame)
Lora Fosberg - "The End," 2010, gouache on found paper, 7 x 7½ in. (image) / 11¾ x 13½ in. (frame)
Lora Fosberg - "A tiny YES," 2025, polished wood with text, 3 x 4¾ x 2 in.
Lora Fosberg - "And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul," 2025, polished wood with text, 9 x 16¾ x 4½ in.
Lora Fosberg - "You are your own rainbow," 2025, polished and painted wood with text, 28 x 16 x 7 in.
Lora Fosberg - "I forgive you," 2025, polished wood with foam clay, 6 x 12½ x 8 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Hugs and Kisses," 2025, burnt wood with text / metal stand, 7¾ x 14½ x 6in.
Lora Fosberg - "mine/yours," 2025, burnt wood with text / metal stand, 8 x 7¼ x 7 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Watch me when I’m on my own, see me falling like a stone," 2025, burnt wood and metal, 9 x 10½ x 2¼ in.
Lora Fosberg - "Stay warm. Burn it down.," 2025, burnt wood with text / metal stand, 8½ x 30½ x 11in.
Lora Fosberg - "Hell on wheels," 2025, mixed media, 18 x 32 x 18 in.
Lora Fosberg - "I can see the end but it hasn't happened yet," 2025, wood and puff clay, 11½ x 4½ x 3 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Don't say maybe," 2025, LLadro figurine with porcelain intervention on rotating sculpture stand, 13½ x 8 x 8 in.
Lora Fosberg - "You and I will never die," 2025, LLadro figurine with porcelain intervention, 8½ x 3 x 2½ in.
Lora Fosberg - "See your future," 2025, LLadro figurine with porcelain intervention, 8 x 3½ x 2 in.
Lora Fosberg - "This is about doubt…or maybe it isn't…I haven't made up my mind yet," 2025, LLadro geese with porcelain bones, dimensions variable
Lora Fosberg - "Why again?," 2025, LLadro figurine with porcelain intervention, 9 x 5 x 3 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Matter matters," 2025, porcelain, 5 x 8 x 3 in.
Lora Fosberg - "We are all inside this dream," 2025, LLadro figurine with porcelain intervention, 9½ x 4 x 4 in.
Lora Fosberg - "We were here," 2025, LLadro figurine with porcelain intervention, 9½ x 4½ x 4 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Plate no.1 (…waiting in the wings)," 2025, screen printed stoneware with Alayna Erne, 9 x 8 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Plate no.2 (the cave of illusion)," 2025, screen printed stoneware with Alayna Erne, 13¾ x 10¼ in.
Lora Fosberg - "Plate no.3 (for JFK)," 2025, screen printed stoneware with Alayna Erne, 7½ x 9 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Plate no.4 (still looking)," 2025, screen printed stoneware with Alayna Erne, 9 x 10½ in.
Lora Fosberg - "Plate no.5 (the edge of wilderness)," 2025, screen printed stoneware with Alayna Erne, 12½ x 10 in.
Lora Fosberg - "Plate no.6 (entrance/exit)," 2025, screen printed stoneware with Alayna Erne, 12½ x 9¾ in.
Lora Fosberg - "Plate no.7 (my eyes are open but they don’t see very far)," 2025, screen printed stoneware with Alayna Erne, 9½ x 9½ in.
Lora Fosberg - "Plate no.8 (the world keeps ending and the world goes on)," 2025, screen printed stoneware with Alayna Erne, 8½ x 12½ in.
Lora Fosberg - "Plate no.9 (found)," 2025, screen printed stoneware with Alayna Erne, 10½ x 7½ in.
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Chicago, IL 60654
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