Lauralee Sikorski, MidWest USA
Member Since April 2007
Artist Statement Lauralee Sikorski Muralist and Fine Artist
www.llsikorski-originalart.com
It seems to me that Art is choice that was made for me. I find it nearly painful not to create. More often than not, when I am creating I have no real sense of time passing, a 10 hour day can pass in what seems like 10 blinks of an eye. For a while that frightened me to go to a place within me that time doesn't exist. I have since learned that this is a great gift, that what is created when I am able to let go is something that has never existed in exactly that way ever before. I find now that my process of creating art is a journey to get to the one place that I spent so much "time" being afraid of, a place of origin, a vehicle to originality. Originality is defined in the dictionary as the power of independent thought or constructive imagination.
Art remains my greatest teacher... of acceptance, of the beauty of our differences, the exquisite beauty inherent in the fact that there is no limit to the range of our feelings... and therefore no limits in the creation, expression and appreciation of art. It is a great metaphor for life - to the extent that we can appreciate all art in it's many forms we are able to see all of life through those same eyes. Seeing not just the person place or canvas in front of us but the truth of it, the amazing gift of it, the fact that it is as we are... as all of nature is... UNIQUE unto itself
SHOW HISTORY:
January 2006 – Douglas Law Library- Solo Art Show- Lawrence, Kansas
Oct.-Nov. 2005 – International Juried Exhibition Group Show Gallery 24 Berlin, Germany
August 2005 – Art 4 People – International Group Show- Enfield, Connecticut
May 2005 - Raw Arts Festival – International Exhibition Group Show – London, England
August 2004 – Long Beach Spa – Solo Show- Long Beach, Indiana
November 2004 – Holiday Art show Long Beach School. Long Beach, Indiana
December 2004 – Dancing Feet Yoga Studio- Solo Art Show- Holiday open house- Long Beach, Indiana
June 2003 – Jazz Art Wine Celebration - Solo Art Show – Porter, Indiana
November 2003 Heartland Artist Regional Juried Art Show – Award Winner- Show Judged by William Toutilloutte-Chief Curator/program director South Bend Regional Museum of Art –Plymouth, Indiana
November 2003 – Dune Ridge Winery – Fine Art & Fine Wine show- Porter, Indiana
December 2003 – Vickers Gallery – Solo Art Show – Three Oakes, Michigan
April 2002 – Annual Harbor Country Art Attack Show -Solo Exhibition Union Pier, Michigan
July 2002 - Annual Urban Voodoo Art Show at Mars Gallery Chicago, Illinois
December 2002 – Tello’s Trattoria – Solo Art show- South Haven, Michigan
2005- 2006 – Gallery Representation – Nearly Orange Gallery - United Kingdom
2002 – 2005 - Gallery Representation- Third stone Art Gallery, Saugatuck Michigan
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