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Lorraine Peltz’s paintings reflect on history and memory, and ideas about love, beauty, pleasure, and loss as it relates to women in contemporary culture. Her boldly painted tableaus join together a range of painting languages, real and imagined flora, geometric arrangements, and comic notations that playfully riff on the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970's, and 17th c. Dutch flower painting that then immerse the viewer in a delightful narrative of painting adventure about love, gardens, and life experience. In these particular works, Peltz looks to her summer garden, finding inspiration and promise in the surprises of color in nature set against the hard edges of an urban space.
Lorraine Peltz was born in Brooklyn, NY and received her MFA from the University of Chicago and her BFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Peltz lives and works in Chicago where she teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was married to art critic, writer, and SAIC professor, James Yood, for 27 years, until his death in 2018. Her work is included in private and public collections around the country and abroad including the Rockford Art Museum, the Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, the Elmhurst Art Museum, Incorniciarte Gallery in Verona, Italy and many more. |
