Paul Lorenz

Paul was born in Chicago and has lived and worked in Chicago; Berkeley, California, Paducah, Kentucky and now Buckeye, Arizona.

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 exhibits with numerous 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. Paul was the only US resident to participate in the historic Realites Nouvelles exhibition in Paris in 2012 and 2013.

Abstraction is not a style, but a state of mind...a way of thinking about action, time and circumstance, confidence and risk-taking, boldness and subtlety.

MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts in Music Composition (2019)

Extension Program, Painting, University of California, Berkeley, California

Studio Program, International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy

Studio Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Bachelor of Architecture degree, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

Solo Exhibitions:
2019
Modified Arts, Phoenix, Arizona, August 16 to September 20
2018
Linear Stream, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
2016
Geometric Abstraction, LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015
Personal Archaeology, Gallery IMA, Seattle, Washington
2012
Line and Shadow, Gallery IMA, Seattle, Washington Architecture and Moment, Center on Halsted, Chicago, Illinois
Color and Momentum, Homey Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2011
In One Day, Cortona Gallery, Ashford University, Clinton, Iowa
2010
After France, Homey, Chicago, Illinois
2009
Oil and Water, Gallery IMA, Seattle, Washington
New Work, Galerie Daniel Vignal, Toulouse, France
New Work, Homey, Chicago, Illinois
2008
New Work, Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, Florida
Paper, Canvas and Panel, Homey, Chicago, Illinois
2007
New Work on Canvas, Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, Florida
Marks and Gestures, Hang, San Francisco, California
2005
New Work on Paper, Shidoni Gallery, Tesuque, New Mexico
2002
Running and Standing Still, Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest, California
On the Horizon, Hang, Palo Alto, California
2001
New Work, Hang, San Francisco, California

Select Group Exhibitions
2018
Brussels Accessible Art Fair, Belgium
2016 ...