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Surreal landscape with horizontal stripped background of blues to blue-purple. Diagonally from bottom left to top right is a wide dripped marbled blob with drips pointing upwards in grey, grey blue, purple, and grey pink.
March 20- September 19, 2021

Lori Schouela: Suspended Landscapes

Lori Schouela’s paintings have a mystical quality to them–through subject, materials, and process, they become otherworldly. In her paintings we step into a fantastical, yet mysterious, landscape. Surfaces are lush with glossy pools of color, paths, and machines that hover in mid-air. Her paintings walk the line between an escapist fantasy and a dark warning of future chaos. A truly interesting landscape is not what immediately meets the eye, and Schouela’s works will leave the viewer wondering what lies beyond the horizon line. This exhibition includes selected works from the artist's "Suspended Landscapes" series, which she has been working on since 2012.

Hear from the artist in person!  Sunday, August 29, 3pm

It’s wonderful to see art in person again, and we welcome you to join artist Lori Schouela as she leads visitors through her exhibition, Suspended Landscapes.  Join Museum staff and hear from Lori directly in this exhibition walk-through. This event is free with Museum admission, but capacity is limited.  Click here to learn more!

 

Did you miss Lori Schouela’s Virtual Artist Talk?  Click below to hear more from the artist.

Gallery: Weinberg Family Gallery
Dates: March 20- September 19, 2021
Participating artists: Lori Schouela
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Abstract landscape painting with horizontal tripped watery ground in teals and greens. Floating is a large blob of rusty orange and red with upward dripping purple on the right and a blue waterfall on the left. Drawn in are circular details and birds.
Lori Schouela, Altered Reality , 2016, Acrylic on Canvas
Surreal landscape with marbled white and black blobs on the bottom topped with white and blue blobs and horizontal black bars behind. In the center are thick blue squiggles from light to dark with a wide blob of marbled white and pink on top.
Lori Schouela, Artic Thaw , 2017, Acrylic on canvas
Abstract surreal cityscape with a background of large horizontal stripes of blue, pink, and green. In the bottom left is a dripped landscape of greens and purples leading to orbs and circles, with a blob of pink to the bottom right and a blob of wavy white-blue to the bottom left. There are wood paneled globular shapes throughout in the background of the cityscape.
Lori Schouela, Minted Kingdom , 2018, Acrylic, marker, pen and ink, contact paper on canvas
Surreal landscape with horizontal stripped background of blues to blue-purple. Diagonally from bottom left to top right is a wide dripped marbled blob with drips pointing upwards in grey, grey blue, purple, and grey pink.
Lori Schouela, Mystic Mountain in Mauve , 2016, Contact paper, glitter, acrylic on canvas
Flat abstract landscape with a board walk-like image in the bottom snaking in to the background, connected to a flat umbrella like shape of white with watery blue and green fill. There is a calm blue on the right and a busy wavy blue swirled pattern on the left of the board walk. The background is wide strips of blue, from blue grey, to deep blue, to light blue.
Lori Schouela, The Boardwalk , 2013, Acrylic on Canvas
Floating abstract surreal cityscape on a grey-purple background. The city is made of blues, pinks, greens, all tripping and flowing into each other. There are pointy dark blue towers on the top right, yellow-white clouds on the center left, bubbles attached to green strings on the bottom right, and wood paneled stickers in the background.
Lori Schouela, Waterfall , 2019, Acrylic, marker, contact paper, pen and ink on canvas
Abstract landscape painting with horizontal tripped watery ground in teals and greens. Floating is a large blob of rusty orange and red with upward dripping purple on the right and a blue waterfall on the left. Drawn in are circular details and birds.
Lori Schouela
Altered Reality , 2016, Acrylic on Canvas
Surreal landscape with marbled white and black blobs on the bottom topped with white and blue blobs and horizontal black bars behind. In the center are thick blue squiggles from light to dark with a wide blob of marbled white and pink on top.
Lori Schouela
Artic Thaw , 2017, Acrylic on canvas
Abstract surreal cityscape with a background of large horizontal stripes of blue, pink, and green. In the bottom left is a dripped landscape of greens and purples leading to orbs and circles, with a blob of pink to the bottom right and a blob of wavy white-blue to the bottom left. There are wood paneled globular shapes throughout in the background of the cityscape.
Lori Schouela
Minted Kingdom , 2018, Acrylic, marker, pen and ink, contact paper on canvas
Surreal landscape with horizontal stripped background of blues to blue-purple. Diagonally from bottom left to top right is a wide dripped marbled blob with drips pointing upwards in grey, grey blue, purple, and grey pink.
Lori Schouela
Mystic Mountain in Mauve , 2016, Contact paper, glitter, acrylic on canvas
Flat abstract landscape with a board walk-like image in the bottom snaking in to the background, connected to a flat umbrella like shape of white with watery blue and green fill. There is a calm blue on the right and a busy wavy blue swirled pattern on the left of the board walk. The background is wide strips of blue, from blue grey, to deep blue, to light blue.
Lori Schouela
The Boardwalk , 2013, Acrylic on Canvas
Floating abstract surreal cityscape on a grey-purple background. The city is made of blues, pinks, greens, all tripping and flowing into each other. There are pointy dark blue towers on the top right, yellow-white clouds on the center left, bubbles attached to green strings on the bottom right, and wood paneled stickers in the background.
Lori Schouela
Waterfall , 2019, Acrylic, marker, contact paper, pen and ink on canvas
"Mixing elements of the ordinary with elements of the fantastic create magical moments in landscape. These imaginative worlds draw the viewer in, longing for a higher source or a higher ground." Lori Schouela, artist
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