Ruth Lozner

March 6-28, 2015

Legacies

“What fascinates me is the intersection of two nearly simultaneous realities–while we live in the present, it is the past that is ubiquitous, indeed, omnipresent.Ruth Lozner is immersed in the practice of making the immateriality of that concept into something tangible, redolent and evocative.

From attics to dustbins, Lozner rescues ordinary objects that suggest back-stories – a button here, a matchbook there, a shoe, a  chair, a fragment of a snapshot, a snippet of a handwritten letter, a broken clock case. Seemingly inconsequential objects can elicit a flood of memories and emotions. By juxtaposing and reconstructing these kinds of hauntingly familiar items into larger structures, the artist builds deeply complex and moving narratives.

Ruth Lozner, BFA: Carnegie-Mellon University; MFA: American University; Royal Society of the Arts Fellow; Professor Emerita of Art, University of Maryland, College Park; previously, at the Parsons School of Design and the University of the Arts. Her paintings, collages and sculptures have been exhibited in both solo and group shows in numerous galleries and museums.