lorena morales: im/perfect home

Exhibit on view:

April 14 - May 21, 2022

Artist Reception:

Thursday April 21, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

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Location:

6448 Hwy 290 E., Suite A102, Austin, TX 78723

Lorena Morales’ artistic practice is concerned with the idea of home, specifically our memory of home. Until now, the majority of her explorations of this theme have considered Home as a place and have often been filled with a sense of nostalgia and longing, sometimes addressing the loss of memory or loss of home. Now, with “im/perfect home” we see Lorena broadening her idea of home to not just a physical place, but a concept and condition. And in a significant way, she is facing the reality that home is not always perfect – some are imperfect. Perhaps a home is full of stress, perhaps it feels like a prison that you long to get out of (i.e., pandemic lockdown), and perhaps it is even abusive – these are all still home to someone, but perhaps not ideal.

In the artist’s own words:

“Collectively, these works ask what it means to represent a space that is such a multidimensional concept. Is it a place, a feeling, a practice, or a state of being in the world? How we, as individuals, think about home is charged with emotion, and may evoke feelings of safety, comfort, privacy, healing, connection and intimacy; just as it may evoke feelings of isolation, loss, melancholy, anxiety, or terror..”

 About the artist:

Lorena Morales is a multidisciplinary visual artist currently based in Houston, Texas. Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Morales holds certificates in painting and sculpture from the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as well as a degree in Business Administration. She completed the Block XIX Program at the Glassell School of Art, and was also awarded a grant by the Carlos Cruz-Diez Foundation and the Glassell School of Art for participation in an Advanced Seminar in Contemporary Art. She is one of the selected 2020/21 Artists-in-Residence at the L’AIR Arts Drawing Research Residency in Paris, France.

She is an active member of the non-profit organizations Visual Arts Alliance of Houston (VAA) and Latin American Women Artists of Houston (LAWAH).

Her work is held in the permanent collection of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston (since 2016), City of Houston’s Civic Art Collection, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (2021) as well as in many other public and private collections. The exhibition “im/perfect home” is Lorena’s fourth solo exhibit with Camiba Gallery.