BIRTHPLACE:   Los Angeles, CA LIVES IN:   Silverlake WEBSITE:   http://www.doriatlantis.com

SCHOOLS:   California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), MFA, BFA California State University, Fresno REPRESENTING GALLERIES:   LAAA, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Gallery 825 TAGS:   installation, mixed-media, Adobe, branches, landscape-based, nature, environmental, landscape, sculpture

                                                                                                      

            I began stripping the bark off branches and bending these branches

            into forms while mourning my mother’s death in 1993. These early pieces

            were allowed to weather, dry, crack, shrink, mold and finally fall apart.

            I found myself drawn to natural  processes and materials in a landscape

           format using installation as the structure.

 

             My work is inspired by nature and landscape.  I alter the materials I use

             while striving to retain their unique characteristics.  Ultimately, I am

             addressing both physical transformation  and opposing natural

             phenomenon such as wind, stillness, shadow, and light.  Underlying

             it all is a sense of the transitory nature of life.

                            

            As an artist, I am concerned with the traditional issues of form, color, line,

            space and texture.  I combine the languages of art and nature to reflect the

            transient and fragile qualities of life and landscape forms in installations,

            sculptures and two dimensional work.