Lori Groff
art, writing, and

Becoming gesture

Becoming gesture

Becoming gesture

Inner, Movement, Real
in the studio, 2014

 

Of Intermediate Space
water-soluble oil on Arches paper, 51” x 34”, 2014

Becoming gesture

Inner, Movement, Real
drawings, transfers & watercolor on Arches paper, (each) 21.5” x 29.25“, 2014

Becoming gesture

 
 
 

Hand and Flower
graphite, carbon & watercolor on Arches paper, 40” x 32.25”, 2014

 
 

My head is a weight that I hold in
my hands.

Becoming gesture

 
 
 

Figure Drawings &
Digital Glitch Paintings
pigment prints, 
(each) 6” x 6”, 2015

 

concrete art as relational as
concrete idea as
if to braid:

what is human
where is human
how is human
in human
out human
about human
if human
when human
to human

human subject
human subjective

human language
human movement

if not human, then what—

not human?

Word, Gesture, Form
photos, pigment prints,
(each) 8” x 10”, 2016

Becoming gesture

 
 
 

Ink Play
Sumi ink on collaged paper
(each) 8” x 8”, 2012

Becoming gesture

 

Mudras for the Ages
mop paint & Sumi ink on hardboard, 17.75” x 24”, 2012; oil on hardboard, 36" x 24", 2014

There is architecture to the hands I draw the mudras I hold everything in them and nothing.

Becoming gesture

 
 
 

OM

MANI

PADME

HUM

 
 

Mantra
ink & solid paint marker on hardboard with paper collage, 24” x 17.75”, 2009