Press
Artist Lorraine Baron paints about issues of concern regarding our quality of life. Ms. Baron's paintings reflect through media, shape and applied materials; metaphors for the current serious deterioration of our ecosystem and the visual results.
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Her paintings viscerally impact on the viewer's interpretation; are they giving acknowledgement to homage, or demonstrating a sacrilege of our environment?
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Ms. Baron's art form readily attracts an audience who marvel at the composition. The materials are unconventional and the result is outstanding!
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New York Times
A stop sign provides both the color and the format for Lorraine Baron's "Vital Sign," which exploits red's literal and figurative aspects. The symbol is immediately recognized eat a distance even without its usual lettering, but on closer inspections surface looks almost liquid, like the vital fluid to which it alludes.
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Helen A. Harrison, NY Times
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"Red - Color/Metaphor"
Wisser Library, NYIT,
Old Westbury, NY
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Members of the TANA artists' grouper exhibiting works which the color red plays a major role. In some, it is used literally to represent things that are naturally red, or just as a chromatic choice unrelated to meaning, although in some cases the color's symbolic or emotional qualities dominate.
"Positive/Negative"
BJ Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
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Most artists think long and hard about the space evoked in their work. All know the darker or void areas - the negative space - can have a major expressive effect. This exhibition, titled "A Positive View of Negative Space," presents presents some of the alternatives by using painting, sculpture and works on paper by the gallery's roster of 28 members. The results are mixed, but a number of the artists make the point in successful pieces.
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The resonance of an all-white empty field is explored in Gladys Goldberg's "Blue Triangle" and in "Thaw", a particularly strong work by Lorraine Baron that concentrates attention on two floating masses of pigment. These appear to be mutating forms, in a sense like paint blobs trying to find their own borders, yet a gloss coating gives a rigidity and objectlike quality to the work.
Phyllis Braff, NY Times
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