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Artist Statement:
The shaping and use of stone
is a vital part of the human
endeavor. The fashioning of
tools and implements by stone
age peoples, the votive Venus
figures of the Neolithic
period, cycladic sculpture of
the eighth millennium BC,
classical sculpture of Greece
and Egypt and all the
sculpture to the present
indicates that stone sculpture
is intrinsic to human
expression.
Sculpting in stone directly
links me to the people of the
past. The subject and ideas I
choose are derived from the
past thus strengthening that
link. The resolutions of the
technical problems are the
same that sculptors in the
past confronted and solved.
Although modern tools and
implements facilitate my work
I am still doing what all
sculptors and stone carvers
have done in the past;
chipping, abrading and
polishing the stone to release
the form contained therein.
My ideas and subjects are
borrowed from antiquity with
each piece telling a story.
Antiquity provides a wealth of
resources for my work;
warriors, the myths, Venus
figures, beasts, demigods and
shaman/priests are the
subjects I appropriate. In
executing an idea, the
importance of light and
shadow, through the use of
negative space is a primary
concern in the ...
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Exhibitions for Lou Lalli:
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1987 Salamagundi Gallery, New York, Sculpture and Photography
1993 Open Studio Show, The New School, Sculptors in Marble - Selected by Phillip Pavia
1995 Open Studio Show, The New School, Sculptors in Marble - Selected by Phillip Pavia
1997 Open Studio Show, The New School, Sculptors in Marble - Selected by Phillip Pavia
2002 Marble Street Gallery, West Rutland, Vermont
2003 Open Studio, Yonkers Sculpture in the Meadow- in progress
2003 Marble Street Gallery, West Rutland Vermont
2003 Group Show, The Figure in Sculpture, Main Library Yonkers N.Y.
2004 Marble Street Gallery, West Rutland, Vermont
2005 Marble Street Gallery, West Rutland, Vermont
2005 Green Mountain Gallery, Stowe, Vermont
2005 Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vermont
2006 Marble Street Gallery, West Rutland, Vermont
2007 Marble Street Gallery, West Rutland, Vermont
2008 Group Show, Marble Street Gallery, West Rutland, Vermont
2009 Group Show, Marble Street Gallery, West Rutland, Vermont
2010 Group Show, Marble Street Gallery, West Rutland, Vermont
2010 IAVANET Group Show, Meucci Museum, Staten Island, N.Y.
2010 Salmagundi Club Three Gruop Shows New York City
2011 IAVANET Group Show, Calandra Institute, New York City
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