Original artwork description:

12x12 inch mixed media collage painting on canvas, mounted on hidden stretchers. May be framed as desired, but edges are painted and art is ready to hang as is. Signed and titled on reverse.

"A superhuman effort to coalesce the imaginative world."
Moray Mair, Mutant Space Arts

"Luzajic, like Wonder Woman, is her own institution."
Paul Robinson, Blog Critics

"Queen of the fantastic."
Carrie Shibinsky, Art Bomb Daily

Statement

A collagist is always looking, always deconstructing and reconstructing. From dentist waiting room magazines to church hymnals to art history masterpieces at the museum to nightclub flyers, my mind is constantly snipping, placing, replacing, discovering, experimenting, gluing over, scraping back layers, recontextualizing.

I am driven by eclectic curiosity, and by the joy of juxtaposition. My work is a curiosity cabinet and an apothecary of magic potions and spells. It is poetry, and a surreal dream. It is the frantic pace of the city and the magnificent silence of the night. It is about love and death and the sacred and inane, and the absurdity and beauty in all things.

Working in the square foot format liberates me to explore old fashioned cut and paste collage along while experimenting with as many other media as possible, including graphite, pastel, acrylic and spray paints, glitter glue, metallic leaf, chalk, pencil crayons, and more. The unexpected narratives and suggested stories that appear are an act of chance, or of fate; each piece is an unplanned collision of memory, imagination, and fabrication.

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Lorette's mixed media paintings have found homes all over the world, including Canada, Mexico, Israel, Italy, Germany, Austria, Morocco, Tunisia, England, Serbia, and Peru, Iand hang in collections alongside originals by Miro, Erte, Dubuffet, Ellsworth Kelly, Jim Dine, Jane Ash Poitras, and Benjamin Chee Chee.

Materials used:

collage, pastel, ink, crayon, pencil, acrylic, gouache

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