artists

LORI DEL MAR
www.loridelmar.com

Lori del Mar’s paintings represent an inquiry into aspects of time and perception. Her subject, in many ways, is the viewer and the viewer’s attentive participation in looking and seeing. 

del Mar speaks of her work as “essentially about being in time… of slowing to explore the sensory threshold of awareness and perception”. In viewing her work, we are uncertain at times as to what we are seeing, and, as such, are invited to relinquish any immediate visual expectation. The delicate modulations of color, light and shadow seem to shift, deepen and thus reward our sustained gaze. With their bevel-edged frames and lustrous surfaces, del Mar’s paintings appear to intangibly float on the wall, further punctuating their performance in time and space. 

Lori del Mar’s work has been exhibited throughout California and included in exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Center, The Crocker Art Museum, the Monterey Art Museum, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Arts Benicia, and at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. In 2005/2006, Delmar received the Murphy Cadogan Fine Arts Fellowship, and was a Graduate Fellowship recipient from the San Francisco Art Institute for 2004-2007.