ARTIST'S STATEMENT
ARTIST'S BIO
Lori’s most recognized paintings are in oil, although she enjoys working other mediums as well. Her award-winning works are a demonstration of intelligent design, confident brushwork, and masterful color. Her subject matter can be anything. “Seemingly ordinary moments and objects become meaningful when you express their beauty.” Lori says every work is like a “time capsule,” stating, “It’s about interpreting a moment, painting from life, capturing the light’s effects, and translating all of that to the canvas for others to experience.”
She is a member of, and has exhibited with, many respected, professional organizations including the national and the eastern regional juried exhibitions of the Oil Painters of America, and the prestigious Salmagundi Club Non-Member Exhibition in New York City. She is also an active participant in The Chestnut Group, Landscape Artists International, and the Southern Artist Registry. In 2010, Lori achieved an Award of Excellence a the Southeastern Regional Juried Plein Air Exhibition. Two years previously, in 2008, Lori was awarded Signature Member status in International Plein Air Painters, a highly regarded, worldwide, plein air painting organization. She has participated in several juried and invitational plein air events across the country, and recently won both the Artist’s Choice and the Public’s Choice Awards during the Wyoming Plein Air Festival, and an Honorable Mention in the Florida’s Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational. Her work is in the permanent collection at The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, in private collections and galleries worldwide. Lori’s paintings were featured in a recently published book entitled, Painting North Carolina: Impressions in Plein Air, and in the “Artist Focus” section of the August 2009 issue of American Art Collector Magazine.
Although Lori has an interest in art since she was very young, she considers herself self-taught, having studied independently as an adult with some of the nation’s best painters. Scott Christensen, Michael Shane Neal, Jason Saunders, and Quang Ho are among her most influential teachers. While it is Lori’s hard work that has made her part of an elite group of world-class artists, she credits her love of learning and dedication to the challenge, to her friend, mentor, and accomplished artist, Dawn Whitelaw. Lori finds it both a joy and a privilege to share her knowledge and talent with students through plein air and studio workshops across the United States and abroad.
In 2008 and 2009, Lori traveled to Italy for more than seven months. With the sole intention of study, and growth, during this time she painted more than 200 pieces from the southeastern Adriatic coastline to the northeastern Italian Riviera and many towns in between. Her intense work during this period brought a greater maturity to the paintings she creates today.
AWARDS & EXHIBITS (selected)
Honorable Mention, Florida\'s Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational, Quick Draw, 2010
Award of Excellence, Southeastern Regional Plein Air Juried Exhibition, Atlanta, GA, 2010
Segil Fine Art 7th Annual Juried Holiday Exhibition, Monrovia, CA, 2009
Salmagundi Club Juried Non-Member Exhibition, New York City, NY, 2009
Italian Life: all’aria aperta, solo exhibition, Nashville, TN, 2009
Featured Artist, International Plein Air Painters, January 2009
Cheyene Juried Plein air Competition and Exhibit, Awarded both Artists’ Choice and Public’s Choice
at Deselms Fine Art, Wyoming, 2008, 2009
LeQuire Gallery, “Learning Green: A Different Appreciation of the Landscape,” four-man exhibit,
Nashville, TN, 2008
Kennebunkport Plein air Invitational, Maine, 2008, 2009
Florida’s Forgotten Coast Plein air Invitational, Apalachicola, 2008 and 2009,
awarded Honorable Mention in 2009 Quick Draw Competition
Nicole’s Studio and Art Gallery, featured artist, Raleigh, NC, June 2008 and 2009
Estes Park Juried Plein air Competition and Exhibit, Colorado, 2007 and 2008
San Luis Obispo Art Center, Juried Plein air Festival and Exhibit, CA, 2007
Centennial Art Center, three-man exhibit, Nashville, TN, 2007
River Gallery, three-man exhibit, Chattanooga, TN, 2007 and 2009
Building Bridges, Greenville, WV, 2007 and 2008
Oil Painters of America, National Juried Exhibition, Fredericksburg, TX, 2007
The Art Gallery at Belle Meade Plantation, solo exhibit, “Works by Lori Putnam,” Nashville, TN, 2007
American Juried Art Salon, 2006 and Master Class Artist, 2007
The Art Academy Museum, Easton MD (purchase for permanent collection), 2006
Plein Air Easton! Juried competition and exhibit, Maryland, 2006
Huff Harrington Fine Art, featured artist “The American Landscape,” Atlanta, GA, 2006
The Society of Master Impressionists International Juried Exhibition, Amarillo, TX, 2006 and 2007
Central South Art Exhibition Juried Exhibition, Nashville, TN, 2006
Local Color Gallery solo exhibit, “Fine Perlage: New Works by Lori Putnam,” Nashville, TN, 2006
COMMISSIONS
A list of commissions is available upon request.
E-mail Lori: lori@loriputnam.com
Phone: (615) 512-0929
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Plein Air Artists of Colorado, Signature Member REPRESENTATION
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California Art Club
Salmagundi Club NYC
International Plein Air Painters, Signature Member
Art for Patronage
Southern Artistry
Landscape Artists International
Metropolitan Nashville Artist Registry
Oil Painters of America, Associate Member
The Chestnut Group plein air painters for the land
or to contact the artist directly,
E-mail: lori@loriputnam.com
Phone: (615) 512-0929
Mail: Lori Putnam, Southgate Studio & Fine Art, The Factory at Franklin, 230 Franklin Rd. Bldg 11 Suite HH, Franklin, TN 37064