LORA FOSBERG

Lora Fosberg is a painter and printmaker showing at the Linda Warren Gallery (1052 W. Fulton Market) from October 16 to November 28, 2009. Read this interview...and go see her stuff!!!!

WHAT IS YOUR WORK ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

The artwork I am making now is about that old timeless classic: man
vs. nature, man=nature, nature vs. man.....bring it!!

WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?

I have been steadily influenced by the chicago imagist from the
1960's....jim nutt, don baum, susan ramberg, and the rest......they
were so irreverent and didnt take themselves too seriously....which
is rare in the vilified world of ART with a capitol A...as a matter
of fact, they disdained the new york school. For some reason, I find
this refreshing and ever inspiring......the idea that the work should
be content driven with a focus on imagery is right up my alley!

WHERE DO YOU GO TO COME UP WITH IMAGERY?

Who knows where the images come from.....they are most likely
distillations from the world around me: pop culture, advertising,
nature, the art world, and my own sick mind, I suppose.

AND MAYBE TELL A STORY IF YOU WANT...WHATEVER. AND ADD ANY INFO YOU THINK YOU'D WANT SOMEONE TO KNOW ABOUT YOU/YOUR ART.

Some of the new pieces in my show at linda warren gallery october 16,
are images that come directly from recent experiences of moving my
(3500 sq foot studio) studio, and the rest of me, twice in the past 3
years. Moving forces us to realize and accept our own materialism and
how contrary that is to the idea that we are, in an ideal world, to
coexist with nature.
There is also a recent image that has been burned into my brain.....I
was driving from bloomington indiana (my new home) back to chicago
(my old home), along a rural highway, and came across one of those
classic landscapes that one does not easily forget.....down a
beautiful wooded curvy road there was a trailer home with all of its
contents piled high in the front yard (not terribly unusual for
southern indiana) but in this case it was as if the tenant was being
evicted from his home.....the pile was HIGH! higher than the
trailer...and there in the midst of it all, was a man, sitting in a
lazyboy, with a diapered baby in his lap....as if this was part of
the daily routine.....his mountain of seemingly disposable stuff
dwarfed he and the baby as if he was sitting at the foot hills of
mount everest.....this image is branded into my brain and my new
drawings, that depict everything I have ever owned, are a direct
result of this contemporary midwestern landscape.

website:
http://lorafosberg.com/
http://www.lindawarrengallery.com/