‘Paris Jar,’ ‘Flying Dogs,’ ‘Aspen Forest,’ and ‘Catch Me If You Can,’ cone 6 porcelain.
BIOGRAPHY
Lori Dresner received a BFA Degree in Ceramics from The Rhode Island School of Design, a MA Degree in Ceramics from the University of Michigan, and a MFA Degree in Video Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago. After a long career in advertising, she returned to her love of clay and her ceramics are collected by ceramics lovers all over the country.
Lori is a member of D’Art Gallery in Denver. Her works can also be found on public display at institutions including Karmanos Cancer Center and The Vera & Joseph Dresner Foundation in Detroit, MI and Morgan Stanley Investment Bank in Denver, CO.
Aside from making art, Lori enjoys spending time skiing and hiking and communing with nature with her husband, Pete and their two dogs, Boshi and Tia.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Lori Dresner’s Menagerie series brings together a collection of saucy characters embedded in sculptural ceramic vessels and wall art. Like cave paintings from hundreds of years ago, roughly sketched figures and creatures tell stories that play with what is whimsical and what is real.
The ceramic work is created with simple line drawings etched into the surface of smooth white porcelain using a technique called Mishima or inlaid slip. As the characters emerge, so do the stories and the backgrounds. Lori’s variety of shapes and forms are an evolving canvas for illustrations that are always changing. Her illustrations are painted with under glaze and finished with transparent glaze.
Website: ldceramix.com
Instagram: @ldceramix