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March 9, 2006
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A creative view of China The reception for the artist is set for 5:30- to p.m. Friday, March 10, and it will include Asian appetizers. The artist cites the Cleveland Art Museum as her first Asian influence. She has exhibited her etchings nationally and has a vast background in original printmaking. The colorful and textured abstractions are inspired by landscapes Loretta observed first-hand when she traveled to view the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River before this natural wonder of the Asian world was engulfed by the waters of the Yangtze River to create the largest dam in the world. The beauty that had inspired poets and artists for centuries was engulfed in a tide of water, which for Loretta symbolizes the tide of modernization that threatens to inundate the lyrical aspects of Chinese culture as surely as it literally obliterates rural character. Loretta, however, noted the benefits of the dam as stemming the cataclysmic floods that repeatedly destroyed villages and harnessing one of the two great water sources of China. Glenn Laaspere is a senior at The Derryfield School and plans to study architecture at Miami University in Ohio next year. Comments? Thoughts? Discuss this article and more at hippoflea.com |
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