Artist describes 'inner landscape'
From The Bay Beacon, May 18, 2003
Mike Griffith
Artist Lory Lockwood often uses mannequins as modesl, either photgraphing them in storewindows, or posing them in her studio. Lockwood's work is on display at the Art Center Galleries at OWCC through June 12.
Painter Lory Lockwood, who won last year's Arts and Design Society (ADSO) art competition at Okaloosa-Walton Community College, returned to Niceville this week for a one-woman show of her works.
Lockwood discussed her art at OWCC earlier this month. Her lecture dubbed "Inner Landscape," centered on how she reflects her self-image in her works.
The desire to control herself and her surroundings is evident in many of her paintings, Lockwood said. Many feature hard, shiny metal objects like Christmas ornametns, cars and motorcycles with Lockwood's own image reflected in them. According to Lockwood, she remains at a remote, safe distance, holding the camera she uses to photograph, and thereby control the images of her subjects, before later painting those images in her studio.
She said she likes to photograph a subject, then paint from the photo imageat a later date, rather than try to complete a painting on-scene, where the subject and surrounding conditions constantly change.
In some of her works, including her winning painting last year, Lockwood photographs or poses lifeless mannequins, painting them in dramatic situations that reflect her own moods or fantasies. Such paintings, she said, often portray the level of self-mastery or helplessness she has felt at various stage of her life, such as "Stalled," a broken mannequin in a stalled or crashed car, painted during a painful divorce.
"Opening Night," which Lockwood called "my happy-ending painting," shows a mannequin posed like a Broadway star preparing for a showtime, painted near the time of her marriage to her present husband.
