Noisy Rain Magazine Issue LXXII

Paul Lorenz (Born: 1961)
With an education in Bauhaus architecture, fine art, and music composition, Paul
Lorenz has carved an intriguing niche in the international art world: bridging the
immediacy of drawing, sound performance, music, and digital collage with the logic
and detail of architecture. All media are a balance of physical structure (wood,
canvas, paper, mylar); visual structure (brush strokes, scrapes, photographs, lines);
and color, whether overt or atmospheric, allowing the creative process to be the final
subject.
The recent work in digital collage is a direct response to his recent relocation to
Arizona. The daily need to create has made digital exploration a necessity. By
pouring through a cache of photographs, decades in the making, new compositions
and personal definitions are realized. The combination of imagery and geometry
evoke architectural elevations and renderings, something that has always been the
essence of Paul’s work, while also being personal reflections of life, location and
circumstance.
Paul was born in Chicago, but has lived and worked globally through personal moves
and residency opportunities. After graduating from the Illinois Institute of
Technology in Chicago, he went on to study oil painting at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, the International School of Art in Italy (under Nicolas Carone
and Irving Petlin) and the University of California, Berkeley. Paul recently completed
his MFA in Music Composition from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in February
2019.
Paul exhibits regularly with galleries in the USA and Europe. As a member of
Pintura Fresca, an international group of abstract artists, he has exhibited
worldwide, with past exhibitions in Australia, Singapore, Austria, England and
Sweden. Paul had his first solo exhibition in Europe in 2009 at Galerie Daniel Vignal
in Toulouse, France, and was the only US resident artist to participate in the historic
Realites Nouvelles exhibition in Paris in 2012 and 2013. While artist-in- residence at
the Shangyuan Art Museum near Beijing in 2014, numerous paintings and music
scores were created. His latest European exhibition was with the Accessible Art Fair
in Brussels, Belgium in 2018.
As a performance artist, Paul’s durational pieces, ‘untitled:LINE’ (2016) and ‘Linear
Stream’ (2018), performed with his sound ensemble Perception Project, explored
interior space and amplified/manipulated line drawing with graphite sticks,
microphones and live musicians. His 2019 solo exhibition at Modified Arts in
Phoenix, Arizona, combined acoustic sounds of drawing and trumpet.
Stay curious, distill ideas down to their essence, and push personal
boundaries...always.