In 2021 Lorraine Shemesh will be Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College from September through November, with a simultaneous solo exhibition of her paintings, drawings and ceramics at the Jaffe-Friede Gallery at Dartmouth.
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. She lives and works in New York City.
“The artist has indeed surrendered to the emotion of the process, giving way to her instincts to almost totally dissolve the solidity of her floating figures and absorb them into a spectral array of optical stimuli: rippling highlights, refracted details, passages of blazing light and incandescent color. The painting is a swirling tide pool of color, light, and dynamic brushwork, pulling us into an almost totally abstract visual experience.”
Steven Nash, catalogue essay Inside Out