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Angela Lorenz (b. USA) lives in New England with annual stays in Bologna, Italy. She received a B.A. in fine arts and semiotics from Brown University, which included courses at RISD in graphics and glass and a year at the University of Bologna. Her works are found in over 100 public collections in the US and abroad, including the following, which have exhibited the works: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; Clark Art Institute; Portland Museum of Art; Farnsworth Art Museum; Walker Art Center; Brooklyn Museum and The British Library, in the Treasures Gallery for the past three years. In 2007 Lorenz was Resident Faculty at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Artist in Residence at the Addison Gallery of American Art. In 2019 she received the award for Outstanding Contribution to the Art of the Book by Center for Book Arts, New York.

The artist’s conceptual approach in research-driven art projects fosters data visualization: any artistic process or material is ripe for use to express an idea. Her work centers on material culture, visual culture and language. Frequent topics include archaeology, architecture, textiles and literature. Frequent processes in the works include watercolor painting, photography, printmaking, papermaking, letterpress, felting, sewing and paper engineering. Lorenz infuses humor whenever possible to leaven the tragic nature of lives lived, and as a mnemonic to aid memory. Unconventional materials and formats are intended to elicit curiosity, for amusement but also to inspire exploration of the non-fiction content of each work.

Essays, images and films for each artist’s book are available on the artist’s online archive at angelonium.com and in the monograph “RE:Making” published by the jenny-press in 2023. The Instagram account r.ed_monde offers ongoing commentary on process in the works, upcoming lectures and current exhibitions.