Elaine Lorenz
 
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  Solo
Exhibitions:
 
2006 "Counter Balance", Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ
  "Nature's Influences", University College Art Gallery, Fairleigh Dickenson University, Teaneck, NJ
2004 "Breaking Space", OCCC Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ
  "Pivotal Gestures", 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY
2001 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1998 "Interior/Exterior", Artspace, Richmond, VA
1994 "Concrete Gardens", Fulcrum Gallery, 144 Mercer St., NYC
  Quietude Sculpture Garden, East Brunswick, NJ
1992 "Introductions-1992", Artyard, Denver, CO
1991 Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
1990 Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
1987 William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ
1985 Bertha Urdang Gallery, 72nd St., NYC
1984 The Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ
1976 The Bergen Community Museum, Paramus, NJ
 
 
  Selected
Group Exhibitions:
 
2005 "Friends/Influences", State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY (3 person)
  "New Directions", Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ (2 person)
  Lipscomb Gallery, SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities (3 person)
2004 The Sculpture Mile, Madison, CT
2003 Quigley Gallery, Western State College, Gunnison, CO (3 person)
  "The Solo Works Show", Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
  "The Sculpture Garden Exhibition 2002-2003", Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ
2001 "In Sight/On Site", SUNY Fredonia, NY
  "Art/Nature/Nurture", Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
2000 "New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition 1999 & 2000", Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
  "Art/Nature/Nurture", Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
1999 New Jersey Arts Annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ
  "Waxing Poetic", The Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ and the Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, TN
  Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1998 "Landscape Revisted," Polo Gallery, Edgewater, NJ
  New Jersey Arts Annual, Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ
1997 College of Art and Music, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
  "Aljira National" Aljira Center for Contemp. Art, Newark, NJ
  "Breeding & Multiplying", Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
1996 "Personal Landscapes", City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
  "Sculpture From New Jersey", N J Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1995 "In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the '90s", Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
  "Pop Up", Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1993 Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ
1992 "Breaking Space", A.J. Lederman Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
1991 Max Hutchinson's Sculpture Fields, Kenoza Lake, NY
1990 International Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C.
  "Vital Signs", Louis Abrons Art Center, NYC
1989-90 "Sculpture City", Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1989 "Material Forms", NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
  "1989 Fellowship Exhibition", The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
1988 "Sculpture 1988", White Columns, NYC
  "Dodeka", Dome Gallery, NYC
1987 "Annual Small Works", Sculpture Center, NYC
  "Autobiography: Herstory", Castillo Gallery, NYC
1982 Brook House Gallery, Orinda, California
  "Invitational Show", Ericson Gallery, NYC
  "On and Off the Wall", The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
 
 
  Bibliography:  
2006 Courier News, "Ceramic Sculptures by Elaine Lorenz at Tomasulo Gallery," Ralph Bellantoni, November 23.
  Hudson Reporter, "An Upward Spiral; Local artist unveils outdoor sculpture at the Meadowlands Commission," Mark J. Bonamo, October 22.
2005 The Bergen Record, "Meadowlands sculpture planned", Carolyn Feibel, Feb. 24
  Jersey Journal, "Sculpture Garden Artist Picked", Patricia Churpakovich, Feb. 26
  The South Bergenite, "New sculptures to grace the NJMC", F. Timothy Martin, March/02
2003 US One, "Sculpture in the Garden", Marty Carlock, April
2002 The Artful Mind, "Sculpture Now", Kathleen George, July
2002 The Independent, Stockbridge, MA, "Sculptures that blend with the garden", July
2001 US One, "'Natural Selections' by Elaine Lorenz", Pat Summers, December 19, 2001
2001 "Art/Nature/Nurture", Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
2000 The New York Times, "Artistic Fury Born of Anger", Claudia Kuehl, July, 22
2000 Montclair Museum Catalog, "Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America", Gail Stavitsky
1999 Trenton Times, "NJ Arts Annual on View at State Museum", Janet Purcell, Aug. 6
1997 New York Times, "Facing Concepts of Decay and Regeneration", Helen A. Harrison, August 17
1996 Newark Star-Ledger, "Sculptors, Painters Give Their Imagination Free Rein", review by Eileen Watkins, May
1996 A Guide To The Sculpture Parks & Gardens of America, Jane McMarthy & Laurily K. Epstein, Michael Kesend Publish., Ltd.,NY
1994 New York Times, "Sculptural Works That Defy the Limitations of Definition", review by Vivian Raynor, May 29
1994 Newark Star-Ledger, "Art at Schools", Carmen Juri, February
1993 Newark Star-Ledger, review by Eileen Watkins, July
1992 Rocky Mountain News, "Sculptor's Coaxing of Life from Concrete", review by Carol Dickinson, February
1991 New York Times, "Imagery with a Surrealistic Accent", V. Raynor, July
1991 Newark Star Ledger, review by Eileen Watkins, May
1990 Newark Star Ledger, review by Eileen Watkins, October
1990 The Bergen Record, review by John Zeaman, October
1990 The New York Times, review by Michael Brenson, July
1990 Art In America, "Sculpture City", By Jane Dodds, January
1989 The Village Voice, "Machine Dreams", by Guy Treby, October
1989 Interiors Mag., "Organic Sculptures from Elaine Lorenz", April
1989 The New York Times, review by Vivian Raynor, September
1989 Newark Star Ledger, review by Joan Babbage, September
 
 
  Collections:  
New Jersey Meadowlands Commission Headquarters & Environmental Center, Lyndhurst, NJ
McNeil Specialty Products Co., McIntosh, AL
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
The Castrol Corporation, Wayne, NJ
Wragge Collection, Boca Raton, FL
AT&T, New York, NY
GTE Corporation, Dallas, TX
Park 80, Kidde Associates, Saddle Brook, NJ
Fort Lee Executive Park, Ft. Lee, NJ
 
 
  Awards:  
2005 State Sculpture Commission for the NJ Environmental Center Headquarters at DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst, NJ
2001 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship Grant
2001 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant
1999 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant
1989 Athena Foundation Grant, Socrates Sculpture Park
1988 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant
1981 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
 
 
  Teaching Experience:  
1991 to Present: Beginning and Advanced Sculpture, Beginning and Advanced Ceramic Sculpture, William Paterson , University, Wayne, NJ
1992-1999: OCCC School of Art, Demarest, NJ; welding, concrete sculpture
 
 
  Education:  
1997 M.F.A. Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, VT
1967 B.A. Fine Arts, Marietta College, Marietta, OH
 
 

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