Lorna Ritz

"Voice Left in a Corner of the Sky"

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:10:16 +0000

Size: 54" x 45" x 1"
Subject: Abstract
Media: Painting / Oil
Style: Expressionism
Status: $7500.00 Purchase
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"Voice Left in a Corner of the Sky"

My creative process entails a whole lot of editing, (scraping and reapplying paint). I feel like I am at a construction site breathing life onto the canvas through a simultaneous building up and a tearing down of color. I paint and I scrape and I then repaint. The surfaces of my paintings resemble ancient walls, in that there is a sense of history alive on them , through the repetition of the "placement and replacement" of paint many times over. The entire painting, in the end, has it?s own specific inner luminosity, and its own presence.

"Duende"

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:05:00 +0000

Size: 56" x 44" x 1"
Subject: Abstract
Media: Painting / Oil
Style: Expressionism
Status: $6500.00 Purchase
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"Duende"

Each of my paintings represents a crystalized chunk of formal experience, as well as being very personal at the same time. My paintings are earthy, rock-like and weighty, and yet they have in them the rhythm of the sea. Recently the forms in the pa

"The Finity in Gone"

Fri, 09 May 2008 23:57:44 +0000

Size: 6054" x 43" x 1"
Subject: Abstract
Media: Painting / Oil
Style: Expressionism
Status: $7500.00 Purchase
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"The Finity in Gone"

In my painting I explore ideas just as an improvisational musician finds his "lines." The dialog between ideas lives in me like a fascinating story I'm telling, forming pathways into unknown territory, I want to see what happens through the "chance encounters" I have with paint. Free like this, invention surges up and I paint out of curiosity: A problem area in the painting becomes a foreign country in which to travel, to explore new territory in the painting. I continue to strengthen the major concept as it is forming and on its way to becoming "whole." I can never quite get there, but I get closer to each painting as I develop my skill. I enjoy the struggle and the search, reaching for the inaccessible.

"Sensation of Spring"

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 06:54:57 +0000

Size: 38" x 42" x 1"
Subject: Abstract
Media: Painting / Oil
Style: Expressionism
Status: $4500.00 Purchase
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"Sensation of Spring"

My paintings are seasonal, as well as informative about how light falls on the open fields and mountains where I live, at different times of day. The paintings also suddenly and unexpectedy recall landscapes where I have travelled which might suddenly

"Beneath heavy Sky, Surrounded by Lightning"

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 06:54:57 +0000

Size: 34" x 48" x 1"
Subject: Abstract
Media: Painting / Oil
Style: Expressionism
Status: $4000.00 Purchase
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"Beneath heavy Sky, Surrounded by Lightning"

I search for the structure and form through the relationship of colors. I am interested in the vibration that occurs when the edge of one color touches that of another. They define each other through their intrinsic differences, of a particular qualit

"Deep Song of the Water Garden"

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 06:54:57 +0000

Size: 38" x 42" x 1"
Subject: Abstract
Media: Painting / Oil
Style: Expressionism
Status: $3500.00 Purchase
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"Deep Song of the Water Garden"

..In my painting, the sense of history is alive through the repetition of the "placement and replacement" of paint many times over. This is something that has occured naturally, over a period of time, as though the painting was a wall of an anci