Spotlight Artist

Michael Lorefice

Pacific Coast
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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

I'm attracted to sequences of events, images, words; how one thing interacts with another and affects the past, present, future. I'm attentive to the delicate interplay of everyday occurrences, the banal; I look for meaning in meaningless things, and in turn, make them special. I'm curious how seemingly unrelated events are connected in space and time through whimsicality, stress, contrast; how through these mechanisms a balance may be achieved. I'm interested in subtly transmuting our normal sense of reality to one that exists as a fluid experience in time as opposed to a static point.

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