ELAINE LORENZ

Solo Exhibitions:
2021 “Fertile Ground,” The Court Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2019 “Organic Abstractions, ”Ceramic sculpture by Elaine Lorenz, The Outside In Gallery, Piermont, NY
2012 "Channeled Earth," Sculptors Guild Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Jacobsen Sculpture Garden, Saddle River, NJ
2006 “Counter Balance” Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ
“Nature’s Influences”, University College Art Gallery, Fairleigh Dickenson
University, Teaneck, NJ 
2004 “Breaking Space”, OCCC Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ
"Pivotal Gestures", 141 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY
2001 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ2000 
“Somatic Traces,” The Interchurch Center, Riverside Drive, NYC 
“Interior/Exterior,” Artspace, Richmond, VA 
“Outdoor Sculpture”, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
1994 “Concrete Gardens” Fulcrum Gallery, 144 Mercer St., NY, NY 
Quietude Sculpture Garden, East Brunswick, NJ
1992 “Introductions-1992” Artyard, Denver, CO
1991 Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
1990 Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
1987 William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ
1985 Bertha Urdang Gallery, 72nd St., NY, NY
1984 The Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ
1976 The Bergen Community Museum, Paramus, NJ

Two Person Exhibitions:
2019 “Forms and Layers, Passaic County Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ
2017 “Sight Lines,” Carter Burden Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2009 “Portals and Layers,” Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2020    Canopy Hotel, Jersey City, NJ
2019    “On the Surface: A Ceramics Show”, Carter Burden Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Off the Table! Clay for the Wall Exhibition” MWSU Clay Guild, St Louis, MO.
2018 "Contemporary Clay 2018" Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
         "Earth," The Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ.
         "Politics of Space" Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY.
2017 "Nature, Paintings & Sculptures," The Belskie Museum of Art & Science, Closter, NJ         
"New Jersey Arts Annual, Special Edition," NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ
         "Currently 80," Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY
         "American Twist, "Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 "American Twist, Governors Island, N
"Proximity: Local Art on View," Mikhail Zakin Gallery, OCCC, Demarest, NJ
"Spontaneous Generation", Installation in the Wildflower Sculpture Park, Maplewood, NJ
"Summer Sculpture Showcase 2016, Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds, Old Lyme, CT
2015 Select Art fair, NY, NY
"Rock, Paper, Chisel: Sculpture by New Jersey Artists," Ocean County Library, Toms River, NJ
"Laws of Attraction", Sculptors Guild 8th Annual Exhibition on Governors Island, NY
2014  "Ways of Seeing," Clifton Art Center, Clifton, NJ (5 person)
 " Scaled to Fit," Sculptors Guild Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 "Art in the Garden" Sculpture Exhibition at Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills, NJ
 "Sculpture Now @ Mount 2014" Edith Wharton's house in Lenox, MA
 "Transformation", Sculptors Guild 7th Annual Exhibition on Governors Island, NY
 "Neoteric Abstract," Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
 "All Fired Up" Gallery 66 NY, Cold Spring, NY
2013   "Rising Tide", Sculptors Guild 6th Annual Exhibition on Governors Island, NY
 "Ways of Seeing: 5 Contemporary Sculptors," Belskie Mu., Closter, NJ
 Fountain Art Fair, Lexington Ave. Armory, NYC
Village of Ossining's Bicentennial Sculpture Exhibition, Ossining, NY
2012 "Process," Sculptors Guild at Governors Island. "AMAZE-ING WATER: An Artists Perspective," The New York Aquarium, Coney Island, NY
"First Annual Head of School Exhibit," Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ
2011 "Home," The Sculptors Guild Inaugural Exhibit," Brooklyn, NY 
"Viewpoints,", SMI's Annual Open Juried Exhibit, Aljira, Newark, NJ
"Dimensions," Upstream Gallery Invitational, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Sculptors Guild Annual Show of New Work”, Broadway Gallery, NYC
"Sculptors Guild, Windows on Fifth," SAKS Fifth Avenue, NYC
2010 “Reality & Artifice,” NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ
“Organitect”, Richard Stockton College, NCECA concurrent show
“In the Garden” M.T. Burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ.
Outside In Gallery, Piermont, NY
2009 “Entropy,” Lana Santorelli Gallery, NY, NY
“Portals and Layers,” Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ (2 person)
“Sculpture Mile”, Madison CT
“Jersey Shore Clay National, 2009,” m.t. burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ
“Art in the Garden,” Reeves-Reed Arboretum, Summit, NJ
2008 “It’s Only Natural,” Hudson Sales Center, Jersey City, NJ
2007 Sculpture For Leonia, Leonia, NJ
m.t. burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ.
2006 “Summit Arts at Wilson Park.” Summit, NJ
“Sculpture Mile”, Madison CT
2005 “Friends/Influences, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY (3 person)
“New Directions”, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ (2 person)
Lipscomb Gallery, SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities
2004 Tusculum College, Greeneville, TN (3 person)
2003 Quigley Gallery, Western State College, Gunnison, CO (3 person)
“The Solo Works Show”, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
“The Birds II, Hopper House Gallery, Nyack, NY
2002 “New Growth” Art Newport, Jersey City, NY
“Forms of Matter: artist’s view of nature”, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
“The Birds: an invitational art exhibition of bird inspired imagery”, OCCC,
Demarest, NJ
“15th Annual Sculpture Garden Exhibition 2002-2003”, Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ
“Sculpture in the Garden 2002” Berkshire Botanical Gardens, Stockbridge, MA
2001 “In Sight/On Site, SUNY Fredonia, NY
“Art/Nature/Nurture,” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum,Wausau, WI
2000 “New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition 1999 & 2000,”
 Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ 
“B.U.M.F. Expo” Art in Plain View Project, Jersey City, NJ
Santarella Museum and Gardens, Tyringham, MA 
1999 New Jersey Arts Annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ
“Waxing Poetic,” The Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ and the Knoxville Museum Knoxville, TN
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1998 “Landscape Revisited,” Polo Gallery, Edgewater, NJ
 New Jersey Arts Annual, Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ
“Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition,” Sandisfield, MA
1997 College of Art and Music, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China
“Aljira National” Aljira Center for Contemp. Art, Newark,NJ
“Breeding & Multiplying” Fine Arts Mus. of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
1996 “Personal Landscapes,” City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
“Sculpture From New jersey”, N J Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
“10th Anniversary Show,” Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City,
1995 “In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90s,” Snug Harbor Cultural  Center, Staten Island, NY
“Pop Up,” Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
“Dirt, Dust, Rust, Smut, Soot,” Fulcrum Gallery, NY, NY
1992 “Breaking Space”, A.J. Lederman Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
1991 to 2002 Max Hutchinson's Sculpture Fields, Kenoza Lake, NY
1989-90 “Sculpture City”, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1989 “Material Forms”, NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1989 Fellowship Exhibition", The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
“Sculpture Exhibition”, The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
1988 “Sculpture 1988”, White Columns, NYC
Dodeka”, Dome Gallery, NYC
1987 “Annual Small Works”, Sculpture Center, NYC
“Sculpture Invitational”, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
“Autobiography: Herstory”, Castillo Gallery, NYC
1982 Brook House Gallery, Orinda, California
“Invitational Show”, Ericson Gallery, NYC
“On and Off the Wall”, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

Collections:

Dwight Englewood School, Englewood, NJ
New Jersey Meadowlands Commission Headquarters & Environmental Center,
Lyndhurst, NJ
McNeil Specialty Products Co., A div. of Johnson & Johnson, McIntosh, AL
Bally’s Casino, Atlantic City, NJ, Commissioned by Danoff Design, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
The Castrol Corporation, Wayne, NJ
Wragge Collection, Boca Raton, FL
AT&T, New York, NY
GTE Corporation, Dallas, TX
Park 80, Kidde Associates, Saddle Brook, NJ
Fort Lee Executive Park, Ft. Lee, NJ

Awards:

2005 State Sculpture Commission for the NJ Environmental Center Headquarters at DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst, NJ
2001 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant to attend the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1999 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant
1989 Athena Foundation Grant, Socrates Sculpture Park
 1988 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant
1981 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, accepted
1981 Yaddo Colony Fellowship, did not accept
1975 Artist-in-Residence Stillman School Tenafly, NJ
1973 Mr. & Mrs. Salomone Prize, National. Assoc. of Women Artists. NY, NY

Teaching Experience:

1991 to 2020: Professor; Beginning and Advanced Sculpture, Beginning and Advanced Ceramic Sculpture and 3-D Design, William Paterson , University, Wayne, NJ,  Professor Emeritus
1992-1999: OCCC School of Art, Demarest, NJ; welding, concrete sculpture

Education:

1967 B.A. Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
1997 M.F.A. Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT

Professional Associations:

The Sculptors Guild, NY, NY, President
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ