Artists Talk with LVA: January 18, 2024

Lori Larusso joined us in the studio this week to talk about her current exhibits in Dallas, TX and Danville, KY s well as the new monograph about her work, “Confected Landscapes”.

Lori Larusso is an American visual artist working primarily with themes of domesticity and foodways. Her body of work encompasses paintings and installations that explore issues of class, gender, and anthropocentrism, and how these practices both reflect and shape culture. Larusso’s work is exhibited widely in the US and is included in various public collections such as KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, 21c Museum, and other noteworthy private collections. She has been awarded numerous residency fellowships including Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Sam & Adele Golden Foundation, and MacDowell where she received a Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship. She is a recipient of the Kentucky Arts Council’s Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky South Arts Fellowship, and multiple grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She currently lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky, and is represented by Rubine Red Gallery in Palm Springs, and Galleri Urbane in Dallas, TX.

Artebella On The Radio: December 10

This week we will be speaking with Remi about her latest project, the ISEEU Mobile Platform. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Tara Remington (Remi) is an American Multi-Media 2D/3D Artist whose processes include: public art, installation, printmaking, drawing, photography, and sculpture. Remi’s formal study: Ringling School of Art, Sarasota FL and Portfolio Center, Atlanta Ga where she studied graphic design, photography, and advertising. Her professional career began in the early 1980s in arts management, programming, instruction, and facilitation. Remi’s ten-year focus has been on collaborative 3D temporary and permanent public art installations and murals. Her work has introduced mixed media processes and art to a cross-section of age, gender, race, and socioeconomic participants. Remi envisions art as a mindful and empowering vehicle of change, informing the masses how creativity can be embraced by everyone and can be approached from many perspectives.