Lori Nix
USA (United States)
Kunstart: Fotografie
Technik: Großformat
Stil: Minimal / Konzeptkunst
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Lori Nix has lived most of her life in the rural Midwest. A childhood spent playing in open fields and witnessing countless storms and natural disasters has left her with a deep affection for the American landscape. This love of the land and sky in its endless variations, and a fascination with the absurdities of life has developed into a series of constructed environments that form the basis of her photographs. Cardboard, plaster, faux fur and paint are employed to create highly detailed dioramas for the camera. Like a movie still, Nix’s photographs capture the drama mid-story and it’s up to the viewer to complete the narrative.
Her series “Accidentally Kansas” (1998-2000) re-created tornadoes, floods, insect infestations and other bizarre events that punctuated her childhood in the Midwest. Transplanting herself to New York City brought an urban feel to her scenes. In the series “Some Other Place” (2000-2002) neighborhood sidewalks, city parks and forays into the wilderness are reconstructed, playing out dark little dramas before the camera.
With the series “Lost” (2003-2004), Nix continues her investigation of the constructed landscape, this time examining the feelings of isolation and loneliness. Like much of her previous work, this series of photos blurs the line between truth and illusion. She subverts the traditions of landscape photography in order to create her own humorously dark world. Her photographs toy with romantic notions of landscape and her lush, rich color and theatrical lighting magnify a sense of isolation and melancholy. The obvious artificiality of the scenes does not diminish the tension created in the photographs. It is the ‘fake’ quality that enhances the enjoyment of the illusion.
The newest series “The City” (current) finds its way indoors with interiors synonymous with our urban surroundings. What would our city look like if humankind were to disappear? The streets would be quiet without horns blaring and tires screetching. The buildings would lie empty, yet inhabited by new residents of fauna and flora.This series of photographs is my vision of how a posthuman future might look. Public spaces dedicated to history and science (and a few intimate spaces) lie deteriorating and neglected while nature slowly takes them back. In the “Natural History Museum”, animals are free of their glass cases and seem reanimated to run amok. Bees now thrive in the “Museum of Art” where honey mixes with genius. The wares for sale in “Vacuum Showroom” are reduced to colorful objects devoid of their purpose, and the “Aquarium”, once able to hold the oceans at bay, has met it’s own demise. In this future, these architectural spaces are a mere shell and the city is the new frontier all over again.
Lori Nix has received several photography awards. She is a 2004 NYFA Individual Artist Grant recipient. In 2001 she was awarded a Light Work Artist-in-Residency, an internationally recognized photography organization in Syracuse, New York. She was a 1999 recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant; a Greater Columbus Ohio Arts Grant recipient in 1998; and participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2000.
Currently she has exhibited at the California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, White Columns in New York City, SF Camerawork and Jenkins Johnson Gallery in New York and San Francisco, and the Houston Center for Photography in Houston, TX. In the fall of 2002, Light Work published a monograph to coincide with an exhibition of her work. Museum exhibitions include “Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory” at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, “Picturing Eden” and “Vital Signs” at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, Katonah Museum of Art’s “I Love the Burbs” in Katonah, NY and “Innocence” at the New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain,
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
SOLO SHOWS
2007
Randall Scott Gallery, Washington DC,
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, March 8- April 21
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, May 12 – June 23
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 14 – July 21
2006
Manchester Craftsmen’s’ Guild, Pittsburgh, PA March 3 – Apr 16
Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL Jan 12-Feb 8
2005
Galerie BMG, Woodstock, NY Sept 2 – Oct 3
RayKo Photo Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June 1 – July 24
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, February 18 – March 22
2004
Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 2- Nov. 2
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, April 22 – May 29
DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, March 12 - April 12
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, May 7 – May 31
2003
The California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, Sept 23-Jan 11
Miller Block Gallery, Boston MA, April 11-May 6
2002
Light Work, Syracuse, NY, Nov 1 - Dec 31
2001
Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY Nov 9 - Dec 10
White Columns, New York, NY Oct. 19- Nov. 25
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA, Feb. - Mar
1999
Epixenter Gallery, Houston, TX, Oct 8 - Nov 13
1997
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
PICTURES OF THINGS, Visual Arts Center, Portsmouth, VA,
THE CONSTRUCTED IMAGE, Redux Contemporary Arts Center, Charleston,SC
STRETCHING THE TRUTH, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI,
2007
THEATRE OF ILLUSION, LORI NIX AND LISA STINNER, Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
2006
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! DiverseWorks, Houston, TX Sept.
FRESH: CONTEMPORARY TAKES ON NATURE AND ALLEGORY, International Museum of Glass,
PICTURING EDEN, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
AMONG THE TREES, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey,
2006
JOINT VENTURE, Nelson Gallery of the University of California, Davis,
I LOVE THE SUBURBS, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2005 INNOCENCE, New Britain Museum, New Britain, CT,
VITAL SIGNS, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY July 2 – Oct. 9
CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
22004
ENCHANTMENT, Art Space, New Haven, CT,
CRITICAL MASS, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2003
STAGED FANTASY, Gallery Sink, Denver, CO
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