About
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Bio
Lori is an award-winning artist whose work was selected by a Guggenheim Museum curator for a juried exhibit. Weisbart-Polson began painting and studying art at a young age. In her twenties she attended classes at the Art Students League in New York City and traveled through Southern France on painting workshops. Her artwork is in private collections and galleries across the country. Lori has a BA in Communications from The American University and an Associate Degree in Advertising Design from Fashion Institute of Technology. Her true love is painting and drawing. In addition to enjoying fine art, Lori has been representing preeminent portrait painters for over twenty years. Clients include MIT, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell. The link to the art consulting site is: www.LoriPolson.com. Before becoming an agent, Lori was an art director for Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Worldwide in New York City.
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Contact the studio for sales and pricing. All paintings can be commissioned in any size or color. Lori welcomes questions or ideas that you have. For the entire inventory of paintings and drawings please visit www.LWeisbart.com
Exhibitions
Saatchi & Saatchi New York, NYC
*Guggenheim Museum NYC curator has selected Lori's work for Greenwich Art Society, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY: *Juried Winner
Annual Juried Art Exhibition Greenwich Art Society.
Juried Winner: Landmark Art Space, Chelsea, NYC
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
Penny Hotel, Brooklyn, NYC
Juried Winner: Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
Juried Winner: Maven Art House, NYC
Ceres Gallery, NYC
Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC
14C Art Fair, Jersey City, NJ *Juried Winner
Juried Winner: Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY
Juried Winner: Blue Hill Art and Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
EJ Audi Gallery, New York, NYC
Westwood Art Gallery, Westwood, NJ
American University, Washington DC
Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter NJ
The Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
Edna Kawulitzki Art Gallery, Tenafly, NJ
Juried Winner: Rockland Center for The Arts, Rockland, NY
ARTIST STATEMENT
I infuse thick, juicy, layered paint, energetic, sensual brush strokes, striking color combinations and graphic cropping in all of my work.
When words aren't enough to convey, I’m compelled to paint. Paintings must come out for me, almost like a sneeze. Rick Rubin said it best in his book The Creative Act, A Way of Being, "As artists, we aim to live in a way in which we see the extraordinary hidden in the seemingly mundane. Then challenge ourselves to share what we see in a way that allows others a glimpse of this remarkable beauty.”
Some of my figurative and portraiture work reflect the “Instagram Generation” highlighting the fact that social media is a fixture in young adult life. Select pieces depict the new self-assured image of women and men and the next generation of empowerment. I may even poke fun at the self-absorbed posts. Humor is so important. As far as my landscape and still life paintings, it’s astonishing to recognize how my surroundings can evoke strong emotion. And I don’t mean only national state parks, if you really look, you will find dirty dishes in a sink are just stunning.
I hope that when the viewer walks away from seeing my paintings that they feel something, anything. Perhaps they will want to create themselves. The viewer may realize “this is it.” We only have one life, enjoy it, relish in the turmoil, the achievements, take it all in, no need to bypass life with all of its ups and downs. Let's be "awake" while living.
Art is good for us; whether it stimulates activism, is used for art therapy or is pure entertainment. I like being a part.
The reason I go to art museums and art exhibits is to enjoy myself, to get excited. To delight in the thick, juicy colors and the sensual way paint can be placed on a surface; to distract myself from what can sometimes feel like a world where people are losing sensitivity. I paint for the same reason.
There’s not always necessarily something profound I am trying to communicate, but there's usually intense emotion. I'm thrilled and moved by what I see. A good art exhibit makes me want to grab my friends and my family and squeeze them tight, makes me want to get a slice of decadent dark chocolate cake with a mocha latte and listen to fun music. Art work does not have to be over-intellectualized. Painting is a medium that does not use words, it feels its way.