Lorraine Shemesh is currently artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College, with a concurrent exhibition of her paintings, drawings and ceramics at the College’s Jaffe-Friede Gallery.
An MFA graduate of the Tyler School of Art, Shemesh has held teaching positions at The Rhode Island School of Design and Amherst College. Her work has been reviewed/reproduced in The New Yorker, Art in America, The New York Times, and Harper’s Magazine, among others. Shemesh is the recipient of a Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Grant in Painting, a Yaddo Fellowship, and a Distinguished Alumni Award in Visual Arts from Boston University, and she was elected to the National Academy of Design in 2005.
“While these dancers may be more static than her swimmers, the spaces around and between them are evoked with such succulent vigor as to suggest that this virtuoso painter has gone beyond apprehending the flow of water to make magically palpable in pigment the swarming energies that activate the very air we
breathe.”
Ed McCormick, Gallery and Studio Arts Journal
