About
Bio
Lori is an award-winning artist whose work has been selected by a Guggenheim Museum curator for juried exhibition. Weisbart-Polson began painting and studying art at a young age. In her twenties she attended classes at the Art Students League in New York City and traveled through Southern France on painting workshops. Her artwork is in private collections and galleries across the country. Lori has a BA in Communications from The American University and an Associate Degree in Advertising Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology. Her true love is painting and drawing. In addition to enjoying fine art, Lori has been representing preeminent portrait painters for over twenty years. Clients include MIT, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell. The link to the art consulting site is: www.LoriPolson.com. Before becoming an agent, Lori was an art director for Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Worldwide in New York City. She has been featured in the Hamptons NY Gallery Guide The Sag Harbor Express, 201 Magazine and FIT's Hue Magazine.
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Contact the studio for sales and pricing. All paintings can be commissioned in any size or color. Lori welcomes questions or ideas that you have. To see work in person book an appointment to visit her studio, visit Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, Piermont NY, check Instagram for monthly show announcements, @lori_weisbart_polson or for the entire extensive inventory of paintings and drawings please visit www.LWeisbart.com
Exhibitions
Saatchi & Saatchi New York, NYC
Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
*Guggenheim Museum NYC curator has selected Lori's work for Greenwich Art Society, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies
Hotel Nyack, by Hilton, Nyack NY
The Holy Art Gallery, NYC
Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY: *Juried Winner
Annual Juried Art Exhibition Greenwich Art Society.
Juried Winner: Landmark Art Space, Chelsea, NYC
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
Penny Hotel, Brooklyn, NYC
Juried Winner: Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
Juried Winner: Maven Art House, NYC
Ceres Gallery, NYC
Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC
The Space, Montclair, NJ
14C Art Fair, Jersey City, NJ *Juried Winner
Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, Piermont, NY
Juried Winner: Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY
Juried Winner: Blue Hill Art and Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
EJ Audi Gallery, New York, NYC
HACPAC, Hackensack Performing Arts Center, Hackensack NJ
The Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Pleasantville, NY
Westwood Art Gallery, Westwood, NJ
American University, Washington DC
Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter NJ
The Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
Edna Kawulitzki Art Gallery, Tenafly, NJ
Juried Winner: Rockland Center for The Arts, Rockland, NY
ARTIST STATEMENT
I infuse thick, juicy, layered paint, energetic, sensual brush strokes, striking color combinations and graphic cropping in all of my work. Texture and the way paint and line land on a surface are important. Paintings must come out for me, almost like a sneeze.
Some of my figurative and portraiture work reflect the ”Instagram Generation,” highlighting social media as a fixture in young adult life. Select pieces depict the new self-assured image of women and men and the next generation of empowerment. I may even poke fun at self-absorbed posts and question the positives and dangers of social media especially for woman and teens. Are these posts a reflection of low self-esteem or confidence or a mixture of both?
My landscape and still life paintings evoke strong emotion. Not only are national parks stunning, but so are dirty dishes in a sink.
I hope when the viewer walks away from seeing my paintings, they feel something, anything. Perhaps they will want to create themselves.
Rick Rubin said it best in his book The Creative Act, A Way of Being, "As artists, we aim to live in a way in which we see the extraordinary hidden in the seemingly mundane. Then challenge ourselves to share what we see in a way that allows others a glimpse of this remarkable beauty.”