PDF - Emily Lazarre
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PDF - Emily Lazarre
E M I LY L A Z A R R E E M I LY L A Z A R R E PA I N T E D PA P E R A SELECTION OF T WENT Y-T WO WORKS, 1998–2014 For Micky LAZARRE’S COGNITA In what assuredly is a gesture of willful abandon the customary confines of the rectangle are breached. But not without unease. One is reminded of those early maps in which the known world, explored and charted, jutted resolutely into the unknown, the terra incognita. Purchase of that incognita informs Lazarre’s work. A work of astonishing juxtaposed shapes and colors. Blue collides with blue. Darks are pricked with the barest bits of bright green or yellow. Crimsons and magentas are solemnized with brown. Greens with black. Only an unerring eye can find a way out of that forest. Even if the quadrilateral is not violated, the white we expected to stay put in the margin has streaked into the darks and reds, leading us around and around until we are finally “Returning Home.” Sometimes, missing at the border, the square corners reappear, chasing each other, the muted pastels heaving themselves to the edge. A captured strip of clean white margin startles, surrounded by gritty greens and smeared tarnished blacks. The ochre and the ochred green rescue us from the menacing square black hole. Lazarre’s cognita is disquieting. Fraught. Consider cutting and tearing painted sheets of paper and pinning the pieces to the studio wall. The defiant borders. Bright pinks and lively yellows hardly alleviate the fierce and somber work. Not until the struggle between the colors and the shapes of color subsides, does Lazarre’s intense cognita rest in relieved balance. Marguerite Kirk Harris ABSTRACTION I cannot remember a time when my mind was not filled with images . . . the quality of light in a room, the shape of an object in my hands, the color of the linoleum floor, the horizon line delicately separating ocean from sky, a beach in fog. Color is woven into my memory. What was green, is green, what was blue, is still blue. Dark and light are often predetermined. As I work, a reverie of drifting remembrance encourages the harmony and dissonance of relative shapes and colors. Images come to life again in the layered painted paper. The results are the abstractions of my life. Emily Lazarre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 1. SURROUND 2013 34 X 39 in. 12. NUCLEUS 2013 35 X 36 in. 2. STAYING POWER 2013 30 X 51 in. 13. TOSS 2014 42 X 33 in. 3. CLEARING 2008 36 X 38 in. 14. RETURNING HOME 2003 42 X 45 in. 4. CALLING 2010 36 X 38 in. 15 EXIT TO HOME 2008 41 X 36 in. 5. ONE ANOTHER 2012 32 X 50 in. 16. PINK PASSAGE 2002 45 X 30 in. 6. DUSK 2014 35 X 32 in. 17. FOR AN EMPTY SPACE 2012 35 X 48 in. 7. AFTER THE PIANO LESSON 2004 50 X 26 in. 18. DOUBLE STOP 2011 25 X 58 in. 8. SUSPENSION 2012 33 X 51 in. 19. MERGE 2014 33 X 42 in. 9. CROSS MY HEART 2000 50 X 35 in. 20. COMING INTO VIEW 1998 30 X 20 in. 10. NIGHT RUN 2013 27 X 55 in. 21. RED LEDGE 2008 40 X 35 in. 11. HOLD 2010 36 X 45 in. 22. HOLDING PATTERN 2014 39 X 35 in. All works are collage, oil paint on paper. Born, New York City 1946 Lives and works in Berkeley, California SELECTED EXHIBITIONS SELECTED COLLECTIONS 2000–2013 Bolinas, CA Fresno Museum, Fresno, CA Greenfield, MA Los Angeles, CA New York, NY Oakland, CA Pullman, WA San Francisco, CA Sausalito, CA Woodacre, CA Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco SFMOMA Caffee Museo, San Francisco Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco College of Marin, Kentfield, CA Georgi Gallery, Berkeley, CA Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA 505 Sansome St., San Francisco Gallery Bershad, Somerville, MA 1990–1999 Gallery Two, Pullman, WA Contract Design Center, San Francisco Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, CA Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA San Francisco State University Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR 1977–1998 Studio M Gallery, Oakland, CA Columbia College, Columbia, MO Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery California State University, Hayward, CA Elizabeth Fortner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco Galeria del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS Fresno Art Museum, Fresno CA College of Marin, Kentfield, CA University of California Berkeley, CA Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Geselle Institute, Berkeley, CA TEACHING 1990–2012 1993–1995 1984–1993 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA University of California, Berkeley, CA Walden School, Berkeley, CA EDUCATION MFA 1984 BA 1967 1960–1963 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA Queens College, City University of New York High School of Music and Art, New York City For their friendship, encouragement, and belief in my work over many years, I am profoundly grateful to Paul and Meme Harris. This book would not have been realized without their help. Thanks also to Sibila Savage who has taken every photograph with special care and expertise. ©2015 by Emily Lazarre All rights reserved. Printed in the United States. Production & typesetting: Margaret Tedesco Printed by Solstice Press, Oakland, California