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Lori
Duckstein
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All my life I’ve drawn
and painted and made things. I have a degree in art history,
with studio classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, papermaking,
weaving, basketry, and printmaking.
I have a great appreciation for architecture and love
the simple iconic house form, which I’ve used
extensively in recent years. Using that form as a metaphor,
I can place it in jeopardy, set it in a power position,
juxtapose it with another house to express personal
relationships, and generally create a portrait of human
feeling and interaction – or lack thereof. My
response to what I view as our culture’s unfettered
population growth and overbuilding is usually expressed
by images of crowded cityscapes and suburban monotony.
The figurative work reflects my interpretation of personal
interiors, or the idealistic view of interior’s
possibilities.
Other repeated images – trees, chairs, fish and
fools – are part of a vocabulary of personal symbols
as well.
For many years I worked almost exclusively in oil pastels,
but in the last few years have also been painting in
acrylics and experimenting with mixed media. Currently,
I’m enjoying exploring the intense working of
surfaces – layering, scraping, incising.
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