anna lorich fine are jewelry

Artist Statement

In essence my work is about feelings. The representation of those feelings very, whether it is dealing with family, landscapes, portraits, they are in a way the visualization of how I feel about that subject. My work is my reflections on who I am, questioning and searching for my identity through the creative process.

There are many themes I’m dealing with in my work, portraiture, landscapes, classical and traditional forms, decorative elements and processes, symbolism, relationships, childhood, religion, and history, all creating what I like to think of as intimate keepsakes of moments and memories.

My portraits investigate the complexities of relationships within the family and within friendships. I play with the notion of a family narrative, tradition, generation, and ancestry. I have fun with the ideas of dress up, shared history, borrowed identity, and the notion of creating a family heirloom.

I use landscapes to represent travel, passage, and memory. My intention for my landscape pieces is to evoke and capture fleeting memories of space and environment. These selected segments of landscapes are captured and isolated in soft white decoration to emphasize their preciousness.

I think about and references memorabilia, I refer back to collections to gather from, both of mine and of my parents. My father has many collections, books, rugs, stamps, and coins, and my mother’s collections of textiles, china, miniatures, books, and family heirlooms. I revisit the past, reinventing the old, looking at the figure, textiles, and the ideas of nostalgia, femininity, and sentimentality. I explore portraiture; with an interest in family lineage and femininity threw drawings and photographs. The use of the portrait and landscape are both dealing with personal identity and intimate places, moments and people, creating and capturing my life.