VALS: Marie Lorenz
Thursday, February 21
Prentis 101
* 5pm *
Marie Lorenz (b. 1973, lives and works in New York City) roots her work in exploration and narrative. In her ongoing project ‘The Tide and Current Taxi’ Lorenz takes participants through New York waterways in boats that she designs and builds, using tidal current to propel the boat. Recent solo exhibitions include Marie Lorenz: Ezekia at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Flow Pool at Recess Activities, New York, The Valley of Dry Bones at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, Wanderlust at High Line Art,New York, and Erie Canal at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, an exhibition about her month long journey down the Erie Canal. Group shows include Providence, at Musee International des Arts Modestes, Sete, France, Future Nature at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s – Now at Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral curated by Steve Locke at Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. Residencies include International Artist-In-Residence at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, and John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In 2008 she was awarded the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize for the American Academy in Rome. Lorenz received a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from Yale and is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery in New York.
poster by Susanna Koetter, MFA ’19
