Paul Lorenz Bio
With an education in Bauhaus architecture and fine art, Paul Lorenz has carved a interesting niche in the international art world: bridging the principals and immediacy of painting with the logic and detail of architecture. Painting is a balance of physical structure (wood, canvas, paper); visual structure (brush strokes, scrapes, tears); and color, typically created from dry pigments. The structure of color takes on its own life while contained on the painting surface. Whether thin and spacial, or thick and elemental, the paint and color are developed to compliment the physical and visual, allowing the painting process to remain the final subject.
The most recent additions to Paul’s work are graphite drawings. Based upon drafting exercises from his years studying architecture, his drawings depict abstraction in it’s purest form, geometry, yet still contain elements of expressionism in the line work. Though minimal in logic, the drawings contain richness in developed space and positive/negative relationships.
Paul was born in Chicago and has lived and worked in Chicago, Berkeley, California and now Paducah, Kentucky. After graduating from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, he went on to study oil painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the International School of Art in Italy (under Nicolas Carone and Irving Petlin) and the University of California, Berkeley. After winning a fifth place medal for painting at the Florence Biennale in 2001, Paul developed classes in abstraction for the MFA program for the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he currently teaches through their cyber-campus. Paul is a member of Pintura Fresca, an international group of abstract painters, exhibiting worldwide, with past exhibitions in Singapore, England and the USA.
Paul Lorenz
Absence as Shadow
Oil on Panel
16 x 16 inches
Paul Lorenz
Absence with Black Arch
Oil on Panel
16 x 16 inches
Paul Lorenz
Absence with Two Objects
Oil on Panel
16 x 16 inches
Paul Lorenz
Absence with Silhouette
Oil on Panel
16 x 16 inches
Paul Lorenz
White Wall
Oil on Canvas
8 x 18 inches
Paul Lorenz
White With Blue Cloa
Oil on Canvas
8 x 18 inches
Paul Lorenz
102 Panels
Oil on Paper over Masonite
50 x 140 inches
Paul Lorenz
Red Knot
Oil on Canvas
60 x 75 inches
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