LOREN MEANS
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I was born in
Le Mars, Iowa, and raised in Yankton, South Dakota. My images arose from my attempt
to make motion pictures from a fine art perspective. I began painting on the
surface of 8mm and Super8 film. I was fascinated by the fact that a minuscule
brushstroke could expand into a monumental shape when projected on a screen.
Within these brushstrokes the images organize themselves as a result of
catalytic interactions between acrylic, oil- and water-based paints and
bleaching agents such as acetone as well as remnants of the original film
emulsion. The end results are excerpts from a continuum of images. Examples of
this work can be viewed on my web site at http://www.slip.net/~means. I was
profiled in the October-December 1988 issue of studioNOTES magazine and I am in the process of guest editing
several issues of the Ylem Newsletter.
EDUCATION
1987 B.A., Liberal
Studies, cum laude, San Francisco State
University
A composite
major combining the disciplines of cinema and computer science.
GROUP AND ONE-MAN ART SHOWS
September 1997--Courtyard Gallery, 1361 Church St.,
San Francisco, CA.
December 1997--Lieberman Productions, 200 Green St.,
San Francisco, CA.
January 1998--SF Production Group, 550 Bryant St.,
San Francisco, CA.
May 1998--Castro Photo, 4115 19th
Street, San Francisco, CA. (One-man show)
June 1998--Cafe Arriverderci, 11 G Street, San
Rafael, CA.
July 1998–Ristorante La Toscana, 3751 Redwood
Highway, Terra Linda, CA.
August 1998–Ristorante Italia–4th Street, San
Rafael, CA.
September 1998–Crepe House, 1755 Polk St., San
Francisco, CA. (One-man show)
October 1998-July 1999–Gallery House, 538 Ramona
Street, Palo Alto, CA.
January, August 1999–Period Gallery, 5174 Leavenworth
Street, Omaha, NE.
January-February, 1999–Danville Fine Arts Gallery, 233
Front Street, Danville, CA.
March, 1999–2-Person Show with Gisele Haselbarth at
Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA.
April, 1999–“Texture of the Gesture”, film showing
in Oakland and San Francisco, CA July,
1999-present–Artisans Gallery,
78 E. Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley, CA.
December, 1999–Alta Bates Gallery, Broadway &
College, Oakland, CA.
“Hand and
Voice”, 6-person invitational all-digital show
January-February 2000–Pacific Grove Art Center, 568
Lighthouse, Pacific Grove, CA
“Exploring
Virtual Worlds”, 2-man show with Daniel Shulman-Means
March 2000–Exploratorium, Palace of Legion of Honor,
San Francisco, CA
Ylem Art and
Technology group show