About Caren Lorber

Artist Statement

In my work, familiar forms, serendipitously found objects and sought after treasures are brought together and given a renewed unity of purpose and place in the world. With these materials, I create unique three-dimensional portraits and narratives utilizing the actual items we use and identify with in our modern world. The utilitarian become aesthetic, and people and parodies emerge as if reborn.

As a three-dimensional art form, Assemblage provides me with the creative opportunity to orchestrate relationships between many disparate shapes and textures. In this process, my imagination is unleashed and there are no rules for me to follow or societal definitions of the symbolism or functionality of the pieces selected for my work.

Creating art has given me a mirthful return to childlike innocence and a joyful experience of discovering more artistic beauty and value in the simplest of everyday objects.

Bio

Caren Lorber is a Los Angeles native, graduate of USC and resident of San Francisco. After spending 25 years in broadcast advertising sales for CBS and NBC, she chose to pursue new directions and fulfillment in the arts, living in Taos, New Mexico and traveling extensively. She collected, promoted and marketed art for several years before discovering her own form of artistic expression.

Self taught, her unique assemblage technique began as an illustration of overabundance, her re-evaluation of material attachments and a lifelong desire to be of and in the creative world.

Since Caren began dedicating herself to living her passion as a full-time artist, her whimsical assemblages have been shown in dozens of galleries and venues throughout the Bay Area. In 2002, Caren was chosen as an Artist in Residence at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco and her work recently selected by the 2008 San Francisco International Arts Festival.

Assemblage

The 3-dimensional medium of "Assemblage" has provided me with the opportunity to utilize and orchestrate the actual material objects that we identify with, while providing a new way to define my relationship to them.

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