PLorenz

My work is my autobiography. My work plays and questions abstraction and permanence. The pieces reflect my education in Bauhaus architecture, my explorations of line and content, and my reaction to life in locations discovered through my continued quest for knowledge.

Studying architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, created the basis for the paintings and drawings. Architecture and structure form the logic behind the way a painting is built and a drawing is constructed. How do the tools used affect the making of a line or series of lines? Each work is an answer to a question exploring how marks and gestures can be created to form a complete composition.

Understanding my place in foreign cultures plays a huge part in the development and choices made for the work created there. Finding the balance of act and consequence within the parameters of an unknown land add the next facet of information and visual expansion.

Abstraction is not a style, but a state of mind…a balance of subtlety and boldness, confidence and risk, the known and that what needs to be found.

PLorenz’s tracks

• CONVERGENCE, saxophone solo, Parts 1 and 2, Cole Stone-Frisina, saxophone.m4a by PLorenz
• ACTION FIGURES for trumpet and graphite stick_2019 by PLorenz
• Prelude and Explanation by PLorenz
• Etude for Bellows by PLorenz
• Paul Lorenz_Tariq Shah_The Sky is a Wall by PLorenz
• Black Shadows (SOLI Chamber Ensemble with Paul Lorenz) by PLorenz
• Black Line No.2 by PLorenz
• HYPYB Book No. 1: String Quartet No. 24 (Tel Aviv 2017) by PLorenz
• Octet No. 1 (Live at Florence Biennale 2015) by PLorenz
• Pink Horizon by PLorenz