“My work combines the phenomena of motion, sound, and sight to create an image of the passion that is heard and felt through music.

I often draw in the midst of orchestras, ensembles, and with individual musicians, and my work includes live public performances, from concert stage to small gallery. Through a unique empathy, and a musical sensibility, I merge with musician and instrument, feeling them become the music they play. I also use these abilities to get inside the music itself. My aim is to create an idea of sound through movement and vision in drawings and paintings that most often—but not always—depict one or more musicians in performance.

I take this experience to the studio, where line, form, and color are as much properties of sound as of visual art. As I transcend art disciplines, I make images about transcendence. Musicians and instruments often become the music they are playing, or something else entirely.

The aesthetic experience of each viewer is, thus, unique. The result is something new—my personal expression as a drawing or painting that the viewer can hear as well as see.”


Lori-Gene has exhibited throughout the United States, in Europe, Scandinavia and Central Asia. Galleries and museums that have exhibited her work include the Imatran Taidemuseo in Finland, Sierra Nevada College in Nevada, Galeria del Auditorio Raul Bailleres in Mexico City, Mexico, Grove Gallery in La Jolla, California, Zenith Gallery in Washington DC, and The Contemporary Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Her work is collected worldwide. Institutional collections include the Art Museum in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, AL, and Sankt Ansgar Gymnasium in Hamburg, Germany. Corporate Collections include King & Spalding, AT & T Corporation, Hilton Hotel, Easton OH, Four Seasons Hotel, Atlanta, GA, The Palmer House, Chicago, IL, and Taylor Mathis Corporation. She is represented in numerous private collections.

She has received many grants and awards, including residencies in France, Uzbekistan, the Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.

In her current work, the Virtuosi series, Lori-Gene investigates motion, sight and sound. The concept for this series began during her artist residency at the Banff Centre, where she perceived a close relationship among artists’ goals in different disciplines. Returning to the U.S., she created a body of drawings based on that vision. Her work caught the attention of composer Thierry Pécou and cellist Silvia Lenzi, who granted Lori-Gene a residency in France to explore the relationship of sound and color, and create the art for their internationally published CD cover. During this residency, she exhibited her work in Paris and in Pelvoux, France. Lori-Gene also created the artwork for CDs published by ACA Digital Recording and Sir Fir Enterprises.

Lori-Gene served on the faculty at Georgia Perimeter College with distinction, winning the President’s Distinguished Faculty Award in 1996. She was awarded tenure in 2001. She left that position to pursue studio art full-time in 2003. Lori-Gene continues her educational outreach by presenting drawing workshops, performances, and lectures internationally, often accompanied by pre-recorded or live music.


SELECTED HONORS/AWARDS

Featured artist, 27th Annual Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival
•2008


Resident Fellowships, Hambidge Center
•1989; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2005


Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad Grant
•TUNISIA, 1998


Project Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts
•1994-95

Residency Grant, Banff Centre for the Arts
•Alberta, CANADA, 1993

Artist Residency, Union of Artists of Uzbekistan, by invitation of El-Notan Abramov
• Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN, 1992; 1993

Archived at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Library and Research Center 1992-present

Billboard Award, Arts Festival of Atlanta
Bill Schinsky , Curator
•1991

Project Grant, Fulton County Arts Council
•1989

Residency Award, Association for Visual Artists
•Chattanooga, TN, 1989

Project Grant, Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs
•1989

Project Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts
•1986-87

Project Grant, DeKalb Council for the Arts
•1984-85


SELECTED COMMISSIONS/COLLECTIONS
C.D. Cover and Portfolio Booklet, Second Chance Christmas
Ric Reitz, author and producer,
Paula Chance, Art Director,
Sir Fir Enterprises, LLC,
•USA, 2004

C.D. Cover and drawing insert, Greg McLean & Geoff Haydon Jazz Quartet, Cabin Fever
ACA Digital Recording, Inc.,
•USA, 1997

C.D. Cover, Thierry Pécou & Silvia Lenzi, Poeme du Temps et de l'Ether,
BMG Ricordi, S p A,
•ITALY, 1997

Represented in corporate, institutional and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Central Asia, and Africa



SELECTED LECTURES/PUBLIC APPEARANCES

Drawing/Music Performance onstage with Deanna Baasch, violin; Danielle Karppala, cello; Tristan Shaw, piano;
•Ackerman Hall, Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, TN
•2008

Drawing/Music Performance onstage with the Emory Wind Ensemble
•Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
•2007

Drawing/Music Performance with the Armonico String Ensemble, and Bassist David A. Goodwin,
Woodruff Art Center, Atlanta, GA
•2006
Drawing/Music Performance with the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Symphony Hall Stage
Drawings were projected onto screens above the stage as they were created.
High Museum of Art Expansion Celebration
• 2005

Artist Talk and Slide Lecture, Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts
•Valdosta, GA, 2005

Drawing/Music Performance with Violinist Fia Mancini-Durrett
•Intown Church, Atlanta, GA 2004

Drawing/Music Performance with Harpist Janet Lombardo
•Genema Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2004

Drawing/Music Performance with Cellist Emily Stemer, Opening Gala, Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center For Performing Arts
•Emory University, Atlanta, GA 2003

Drawing/Music Performance with Saxophonist Scott A. Stewart, King Plow Art Center
•Atlanta, GA 2003

Drawing/Music Performance, with Pianist Paul Scott, Residence of John and Martha Ezzard
•Tiger, GA 2002

Artist Talk and Slide Lecture, NorDys Gallery
•Birmingham, AL 1999

Featured on National Television nightly news program A Closer Look, WAGA Fox5;
presented by Doug Richardson and Amanda Davis
•July 12 1999

Artist Talk and Slide Lecture, University of Montana
•Billings, MT 1999

Artist Talk and Slide Lecture, Musique En Ecrins Festival, Pelvoux, France
Laurent Boukobza, Translator
•1996

Artist Talk and Slide Lecture, Spruill Center for the Arts
•Atlanta, GA 1996

Artist Talk and Slide Lecture, Banf Centre for the Arts
•Alberta, Canada 1993

Personal radio interview (in Russian language)
•Tashkent, Uzbekistan 1993

Group interview for Moscow Television
•Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1992

Artist Talk and Slide Lecture, Union of Artists of Uzbekistan
•Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1992


EDUCATION
Georgia State University, Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture
•1991

Texas Tech University, Graduate Studies in Aesthetics, Ceramics, Drawing
•1985

Georgia State University, Bachelor of Visual Art degree in Ceramics, with an additional major in Art Education, minor in Art History
•1979