Bio
Ms. Lhormer has exhibited widely throughout New England and beyond for over twenty five years. Highlights include a recent solo show at The Painting Center in New York City, and group exhibitions at The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Lyman Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, 808 Gallery Boston, MA, Trustman Gallery Boston, MA, Reynolds Ryan Gallery New Orleans, LA and The Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Upcoming in 2019 She will be part of a four person exhibit at Speedwell Projects in Portland, Maine.
She teaches painting and drawing at Bridgewater State University and has published articles on influential painters in Provincetown Arts Magazine, Art New England and Cape Arts Review.
Jan Lhormer has won fellowships to both the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center For The Creative Arts.
She earned a BFA in 1988 and a MFA in 1990 in Painting from The Boston University School of Visual Arts. Lhormer received a bachelor’s degree in Art History from Colorado College in 1983. Her work has been reviewed by The Boston Globe and featured in Cape Cod Life Arts Edition and Cape Arts Review Magazine.
Artist Statement
My paintings conjure imagery of sea and skies, ponds, gardens and marshes through visceral layers of color and gesture. Flora, fauna, buds, fish, birds, and other flying or swimming creatures inhabit the watery environments.
I am inspired by etherial qualities of landscape, expressionist artist through out history, and the rich language of paint. Saturated color becomes a material to build form and create movement within an emotionally charged space. Like modernist painter Kandinsky, and many other synthesists, I think of color as having musical sound, which guides and structures the compositions.
Acknowledging the spiritual aspects of art, the work speaks to the magic and resilience of our fragile environment and our transient connection to the earth.
