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RENEE LACHMAN

Drawing, Painting, Sculpture / Installation, Visual / Media

I enjoy mixing media, and switching from 2D and 3D elements because it allows me to use different parts of my brain and personality. For example, while creating masks or assemblages, I can use my intuitive sensibilities, to figure out how to integrate objects, textures, and color into something cohesive. With oil paints I enjoy the luscious textures and ability to suggest three dimensions. And with acrylics I appreciate the vibrant, flat colors and ease of revision. I especially enjoy projects, such as murals, that involve the community, to listen to their suggestions while retaining my own style.

About the Artist

Renee T. Lachman, holds an M.F.A. in painting from George Washington University, and a B.F.A. in painting and drawing from Philadelphia College of Art. She works in a variety of media - acrylic and encaustic paints, graphite drawing, sculpture and collage. She has shown widely in the Washington area and has exhibited in Philadelphia and New York.  Renee taught at Montgomery College and was an artist/teacher with Maryland State Arts Council's AiE Artist-in-Residence Roster program.

RENEE LACHMAN website reneelachman.com

Artist's Statement

To know a person, know her roots. My roots start in New York, with a childhood mixing the urban landscape in Queens and the wilderness of summers spent at my grandmother’s farmhouse upstate. The sense of being an independent explorer and collector never left me and contributes greatly to my work now. I observe, collect, and piece together fragments that reflect my questions about ancestry and domesticity, memory, and the tangle of past and present.  

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