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The Compound Gallery & Studios
January 28 - March 12, 2017Info
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http://thecompoundgallery.com/
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(510) 655-9019
Reception
March 12, 2017 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
“Higher Ground” is a visual articulation of the experience of traveling for five months on foot across the highest elevations of the west coast of North America. Combining painted and drawn pattern with the landscape of the Pacific Crest Trail, Jeanne Lorenz has created a series of hand-painted, site-specific, large-scale wall paintings based on her 2,000-mile hike of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Those months walking in the wilderness allowed Lorenz to focus on water, travel light, and be open to the poetry of human interaction. Returning to the studio, she limited her color palettes to reflect her time on the trail, making her own paint from pigments ground into a liquid dispersion reflective of the earth. The drawings that filled her PCT sketchbooks form the basis of the paintings and drawings on display at the Compound. The painted, patterned wall installation It’s All Down Hill From Here- except that is isn’t and it never will be, depicts the Mojave high desert ravaged by wildfire, bisected by strong, simple geometric pattern symbolic of time and its manifestations as season.