When: September 10th, 11th, & 12th

Where: All Things Artistic

Price: Free

Description: We will be hosting an art show for Lori K. Gordon on September 10th, 11th and 12th. You can find numerous websites, blogs and even a Wikipedia entry if you google her name. We are very excited about this event and hope that we will show her a wonderful turn-out! Please pay attention to this note for updates on this show. We will be adding a date and time fore her reception and then a silent auction for one of the pieces that she is giving us as a gift! Biography Lori K. Gordon was born in the Northern Plains, and spent her childhood on the prairies of eastern South Dakota. As a teen, she began moving west and then south, living for years in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the high desert of Arizona. Along the way, she picked up a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in religious studies, all the while pursuing her love of art. She has traveled extensively in the United States, painting and drawing her way from the west to east coasts, and from Canada to Mexico. In 1991 she made the Mississippi Gulf Coast her home. Largely self taught, Gordon works in many medias including graphite, fabric, acrylic, handmade paper and polymer clay. She is especially fond of collage and assemblage work, and introduced her first mixed media series in 2000. Three years later, one of her pieces was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution for inclusion into their permanent collection. “Labat: A Creole Legacy” is an eight by ten foot fabric collage which tells the story, in images and text, of the life of a Bay St. Louis Creole woman who died in 2002 at the age of 104. In 2003 Gordon began capturing the local landscapes of her beloved Mississippi Gulf Coast in acrylic, and continued that work until Hurricane Katrina upended her life on August 29, 2005. With her home, studio and all of her supplies washed away by the 35 foot storm surge and 150 mile per hour winds which obliterated her community, Gordon returned to work using the only materials which were available to her. Just weeks after the event, Gordon began collecting rubble and transforming it into works of art. “The Katrina Collection” is the name she has given to this series of mixed media collages and assemblages. The series has been featured on MSNBC, National Public Radio and the CBS and Associated Press websites. It has been spotlighted in several documentaries, including the award-winning Mississippi Son and Public Broadcasting’s Mississippi Roads and Southern Expressions. In addition to the Smithsonian, Gordon’s work may be found in the public collections of the Mississippi Humanities Council, William J. Clinton and Thea Foundation’s Art Across Arkansas, the Safeco Corporate Collection, the University of Virginia, and the University of Southern Mississippi. Private collectors include former President and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, singer Faith Hill, ESPN announcer Jon Miller, and Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts. She has exhibited The Katrina Collection in venues around the nation, and pieces from the series may be found throughout the United States, Asia and Europe. Most recently, Gordon has been creating collages on canvas that combine photography, painting and bits of handmade paper to produce images that are striking and unforgettable. She will be exhibiting select pieces of this new series of work, many of which portray scenes from recent travels to Istanbul, Turkey and the island nation of Cyprus. Pieces of the Katrina Collection will also be on display, as well as other mixed media work. For a complete biography on Gordon, log on to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_K._Gordon, or visit her personal site at www.lorikgordon.org.

Contact: 706-235-0072