Art by Lori Isom
Custom Portraits
by Lori
Charcoal, Pencil or Acrylic
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Portrait Commission Price List:
Charcoal or Pencil Drawing (one person)
Size 9x12 - 11x14
Price $150-and up
(Extra Fee for Additional Person(s)
Acrylic Painting (One Person)
Size 9x12 - 11x14
Price $275-and up
($225-and up for Additional Person(s)
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New Mixed Media Works
Additional Works By Lori
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Guardian
14x18 (framed) mixed media and collage
Public Housing
20x16, acrylic on canvas
Little Miss Sunshine 14x18 acrylic
Playmates Soldiers 18x24 Acrylic on Canvas
Now Begin 18x14 Acrylic on Canvas
A Modest Woman
24x18 Acrylic on Canvas
You Wore That Green Dress
14x11, acrylic on canvas
Road trip With Granddaddy
14x18 (framed) charcoal on toned paper
Cream Rises 2022 "ALL WOMEN ARTIST"
24x48, acrylic on canvas
Memory
28x22, acrylic on canvas
Like Father, Like Son
14x11, acrylic on canvas
Rommie and Jule
18x24, acrylic on canvas
Lori Artist Statement
About Lori Isom
Artist Lori Starnes Isom opens Portrait Studio at Gallery 537 in Camden, SC
Featuring a new series of modern portraits telling a historical tale with Queens at the Opening of Camden's Newest Art gallery, G537 @ 537 East Dekalb St., Camden South Carolina.
With years of her life dedicated to working as a professional dancer, singer and actress in New York and Los Angeles, Lori Isom brings the movement, emotion and all the creative elements of theater and dance to her portraits with unusual compositions, structures and colors in a large palette of different mediums from oils, watercolors to pastels, assemblages and collages.
As a student of the Parsons School of Design with studies in fine art and fashion design, Lori has predominately taught herself the varied techniques of creation in figurative and portrait art. As an artist, her deepest desire, is to present her subjects in the most sincere and expressive way, making sure the emotion and personality behind the painting is both felt and seen.
Lori has been celebrated in the pages of American Art Collector, interviewed for television and newspaper articles, as well as a featured artist in many group exhibitions. She has been commissioned to paint hundreds of individual and family portraits and is now celebrating the opening of her first portrait studio at G537 gallery in Camden, SC. Planting herself in a place of deep family roots, she hopes to make portraits more accessible to every one; moving beyond the influence of societal values. Creating a space where anyone can be immortalized in a painting and create an heirloom for generations to come.
EXHIBITIONS:
Gallery 537 - Solo Art Exhibition, Camden, SC. October 2, 2021 - present.
S.C. Water media Society 44th Annual Juried Art Touring Exhibition, Cola 2021-2022.
Moja Juried Art Exhibition - City Art Gallery, Charleston, SC. September 30 - October 10, 2021.
Richland County Public Library - Facing Race (group exhibition), Cola. SC, July-September 2021.
Richland County Public Library - Solo Exhibition. Cola, SC, March 2020
North Charleston City Gallery - Grey Matters: Women in Progress. N. Charleston SC, February 2020
Supper Table Traveling Exhibition (Jasper Project) Cola, SC, September 2019-present
Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition - Charleston City Gallery, Charleston SC, May - June 2019
Arts Center of Kershaw County - Duo art exhibition. Camden, SC, October 2018 - November 2018
North Charleston Cultural Arts Center, Artist-in-Residence - N. Charleston, SC, 2011-2012
Join Us For A Special Viewing @ The October 7th Opening Gala!
This exhibition titled "Now and Here" is a compilation of figures and portraits inspired by my beautiful young model, Brianna Lloyd. Through a photo session done earlier this year, we came up with a plethora of great poses that sparked my creative juices and influenced the stories that you see here.
I tend to enjoy working in series because I'm able to hash out an idea, or range of ideas, over several separate pieces. I find it to be therapeutic, and usually leads to possibilities for yet another series.
Most of the work here is allegorical, which is something I noticed only after I had completed several pieces. Personal challenges leading to lots of self-reflection, coupled with worldwide challenges and historic changes, particularly over the last couple of years, have deeply affected my thinking and my art.
Artists, and the art that we create, is constantly evolving. I believe that this exhibition is truly representative of who I am right now, and that's all that I, or any other artist, can ask of themself.