A
native of Connecticut, Lorraine Aveni's interest in
regional photographic themes began in the 1960's when,
while living in Arizona, she bacame attracted to traditional
Native American art imagery. For two decades since
then, she served annually as field expedition photographer
on archaeological extended study programs conducted
by Colgate University south of the border in Mexico,
Central and South America.
It
was in 1985, when Lorraine resided in Venice, that
she grew fascinated with the possibilities for refining
the European artistic form known as the Photogram,
a product of the experimental Bauhaus movement of
the 1920's. Photograms are filmless photographs created
in the darkroom by the manipulation of light and shadow
upon objects placed in direct contact with photosensitive
paper.
After
studying Printmaking at Brookfield Art School (Brookfield,
CT) and Painting and Photography at Munson Williams
Proctor Institute (Utica, NY), she also served as
President of the Village Artists & Craftsmen in
Hamilton, NY, through the 1980's.
Lorraine
created her first solo show in 1990 at the Earlville
Opera House Gallery (Earlville, NY), featuring Black
& White nostalgic abstract photgrams of American
Indian subjects, as well as Victorian florals. Later
exhibits, in color, at the Case Libary of Colgate
University included:
Lorraine's work was also exhibited at the NY Art Associations' Focus on Black & White, Juried Show in Cooperstown, NY in November 2004.
Now
that Lorraine lives in the Adirondacks, her most recent
Photograms return to an exploration of new ways of
seeing and expressing the Park's natural treasured
icons of woodlands, mountains, lakes and animals.
