A Shelter from the Storm
From Mobile Register, Oct/05
Thomas Harrison
Painter Lory Lockwood says that the concept for the Mobile show is "fabulous."
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painter Lory Lockwood's
"Porsche at the International Hotel,"
oil on canvas, will be a part of the "Made in New Orleans: A Survey of Contemporary Art from the Crescent City," which open Nov. 4 at the Space 301 Gallery in downtown Mobile
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"Doing this kind of show as a historical perspective on what was going on before (Katrina) is interesting because it really puts it in a moment in time," she says be long distance. "None of the work was influenced by the disaster. It sort of freezes all that."
Lockwood is currently working along with other displaced New Orleans artists, such as Ron Bechet and John Scott, in the Lawndale Art Center in Houston.
Lockwood considers herself "really, really lucky." Her house survived Katrina just fine, and 80% of her work was safely on display at a show in Pennsylvannia.
"A total fortuitous coincidence," says Lockwood., who had one painting in a Julia St. gallery, another at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She assumes those works were out of harm's way.
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a self portrait by the artist
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