My work involves the Landscape - both figuratively and literally. In making my work, circumstance, response, habitation, roles and community all shape how the landscape is inferred or represented. Text, and Sky as metaphor are two themes that I frequently use.

In using Text, I am fascinated with the ways in which language can be confusing or clear - ultimately effecting how we engage with our environment and with each other. It is tangible, yet elusive. The Sky is a vast and unattainable component of the Landscape, indicative of what is known or venerable, what is close yet far, comforting and at once, or suddenly - susceptible.

Processes I employ include painting, writing stream of consciousness lists, shooting guns, purging ugly and stupid things, hunting and gathering appropriated papers or every-day objects and seeing the sources for a new daily story.

In seeing, I look for similarities and differences, the grey areas in between and how no day is mundane.

- Leora Lutz

Leora Lutz

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curatorial experience

11/2003 – 06/2008 GALLERY REVISITED Los Angeles

Curator. Director. Proprietor

02/2003 - 08/2003 Co-Curator. SELECTED COLLECTIVE

04/1997 - 09/1997 Co-Curator/Exhibiting Artist. ELIXIR

02/1996 - 09/1996 Co-Curator/Exhibiting Artist. COLLECTIVE SAMPLING

06/1996 - 12/1996 Curator. RUST

02/1992 - 06/1992 Curator. STRENGTH QUILT

selected artist & curatorial press

Sep 08                                     “East of Eden” THE magazine

Sep 08                                     “East of Eden” by George Melrod artltd.; Interview

May 08                                     AWOL blog by Ezhra Jean Black Artillery

Jan 08                                      “Paige Wery” by Christopher Russell ArtUS

July 2008                                  Uber.com, Shana Nys Dambrot

July 2008                                  The Joint Custody Project, White Hot Mag., M. Feruggia

May 07                                     “Around the Galleries” by Holly Myers LA Times

August 05                                 “Around the Galleries” by David Pagel LA Times

April 05                                     Pick of the Week by Peter Frank LA Weekly

August 04                                 “David Trulli & Michiko Yao” by Charlene Roth Artweek

Dec 2005                                  "Chinatown" LA Downtown News, paintings at Realm

Dec 2005                                  Genlux. Editor’s Picks

Mar 2005                                  Elle Girl. Editor's Pick "City Silhouettes"

Feb 2005                                  alloy online. feature article illustration

Nov 2004                                  Daily Candy_dot_com, "LA Lady"

Sep 1996                                  Sierra Madre News cover story, "Collective Sampling"

Feb 1993                                  Pasadena Weekly "Art of the Heart" Gallery News

Jun 1992                                   Pasadena Star cover story "Client Gifts AIDS Center"

published writings

11/2005 - present blog.galleryrevisited.com

06/2009 "Beautiful Decay A to Z" review Kopeikin Gallery. THE Magazine

12/2008   "Knot, Two Be or Not To Bee", 1200 word prose essay.  Coagula Arts Journal

11/2008  "Mondongo at Track 16", review Track 16. THE magazine

selected exhibitions

2009

proVISIONal Orange County Center for the Arts. Juried by Shane Guffogg. Santa Ana

urban plein air society Telic. Curated by Daniel Ingroff. Los Angeles

MOCA Fresh Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles

Self Portraits in the age of Myspacebook I-5 Gallery. Curated by Marla Koosed and Mat Gleason. Los Angeles

scheduled -

I am the Land Bleicher/Golightly. Santa Monica

210 Gallery 210 Curated by C. Feesago and Q. Bemiller. Pasadena

250 Crussel Fine Art Curated by Jeffrey Crussell. Santa Ana

2008

Art Sale Curated by Sonia Romero. Highland Park

Perennial Exhibition 222 gallery. Philadelphia

Raffle 08 Sea and Space Explorations. Curated by Lara Bank. Highland Park

$2 Bill Show I-5 Gallery. Curated by Mat Gleason. Los Angeles

Joint Custody Project Found Gallery. Curated by Shana Nys-Dambrot and Tad Beck

Artist/Gallerist another year in LA. Curated by David E. Stone. Los Angeles

2007

Is this how… Mc Nish Gallery. Curated by Ronald Lopez. Oxnard

Small Wonders Pharmaka. Curated by Tyler Stallings. Los Angeles

Gift Shop another year in LA. Curated by David E. Stone. Los Angeles

The New Warhol Scottsdale Museum of Fine Art. Scottsdale, AZ

FreshstART Santa Monica. Venice Art Walk Auction. Venice, CA

Urban Landscape Lawrence Asher Gallery. Los Angeles

affiliations

MOCA Contemporaries. 2003 – present

Board of Directors; Communications Co-Chair (2008/2010)

other related professional experience

2005 INVITED JUROR

Tarfest - participated in panel review process

LA Art Association - new membership submission review