L.G. T A L B O T

Cottage Street Studios

1 Cottage Street, Easthampton,MA. 01027

LGTalbot4@gmail.com

 

BIOGRAPHY 2021

Lora Talbot was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She began her studio practice as a ceramic artist.

At Penland School of Craft, she studied with Robert Turner, whose work is noted for its dynamic yet serene forms. Her early influences also include the sculptural work of abstract expressionist, Peter Voulkos, who freed clay from its technical limitations by expanding its aesthetic possibilities. Consequently, physical engagement with materials and an elegant economy in composition have become signature aspects of Talbot’s larger-than-life-sized oil paintings on canvas that now define her practice.

Recently Talbot’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Five Points Gallery in Torrington, CT and at Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her paintings have also been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions throughout New England.

Talbot earned an MA at Lesley College, Boston, MA and a BFA at University of Tennessee, Chattanooga,TN. She attended the Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC and the Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Tech University, Smithville, TN.

She lives in the hilltown of Conway in Western MA and maintains a studio in Easthampton, MA.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Hands up, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT

2019 Resist, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

2018 Resist, St. Germaine Art Gallery, Western New England University, Springfield, MA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020   ITSLIQUID Group
            Artist of the Month, December, 2020.

2020   2nd Half-50 and Older Exhibition
            Laguna Beach, CA.

2020   Art in the Time of Corona
             Dab Project, Los Angeles, CA.

2020    Breathing While Black
             Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

2020   Pushing the Envelope
             Pulp Gallery, 80 Race Street, Holyoke, MA.

2020   Political Discord, 577 S.Coast Highway, Lacuna Beach, CA.

2017   Monster Arts Project, MAP (Mill Arts Project). Easthampton, MA.

 

EDUCATION

1994     M.A. Lesley College, Boston, MA.

1989    B.F.A. University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN.

1992    Penland School for Crafts, Bakersville, NC.

1991    Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech University. Smithville, Tennessee.

1990   University of Georgia Study Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy.