Carmen Lozar

Carmen Lozar Tailored Glass

Published by Ken Saunders Gallery 230 West Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 www.kensaundersgallery.com Š 2011 Ken Saunders Gallery All rights reserved Printed and Bound in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

First Edition October 2011

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Designer: Jo-Nell Sieren Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication-Data Ken Saunders Gallery Lozar, Carmen Carmen Lozar / Tailored Glass / Ken Saunders Gallery ISBN: 978-0-9834519-6-9

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Carmen Lozar

Tailored Glass

Carmen Lozar creates tiny fantasias that are sly commentaries on femininity and domesticity. Her works are intimate and charming but often include a slightly eerie touch. Her Lamplighter may be a symbol of hospitality at its brightest but Carmen makes an anatomical leap that is the stuff of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Dress Set for Dorothy includes not only the heroine’s bright jumper but the Witch’s hat and broom. In Ripe the young women gorges on juicy berries making a mess of herself even as her body expands into a lovely fecund vessel.

Carmen Lozar first exhibited with this gallery while she was a student at the University of Illinois studying with William Carlson. She was part of a group of very talented artists who particapated in the inaugural (now annual) student show that the gallery mounts.

Ten years after that student exhibition Carmen participated in a small group show at the gallery that showed how much she had developed her artistic vision and technical vocabulary. Imbued with humor and pathos her work gives voice to a sensitive woman who readily draws from her rich life as a wife, mother, teacher and maker.

She has joined a modern impulse on the part of a handful of women working in glass to combine a distinctly feminine narrative with traditional techniques.

I am absolutely thrilled to present Carmen Lozar’s latest body of work at my gallery.

Please enjoy this publication which not only documents the exhibition but explores the artist’s evolution and shows her at work in the studio and at home with her family. Thanks again to Jo-Nell Sieren for her efforts on this catalogue.

Ken Saunders

November 2011 | Ken Saunders Gallery

Cloudscape, 2011 19 x 5 inches

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His Set, 2011 7 x 11 x 2 1/2 inches

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Make - Believe, 2011 10 x 7 1/2 inches

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Set for Dorothy, 2011 7 x 11 x 2 1/2 inches

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Twin Headed Lady, 2011

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Lamplighter, 2011 16 1/2 x 6 inches

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Prima Ballerina Set, 2011 7 x 11 x 2 1/2 inches

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Set for Rumpelstiltskin, 2011 7 x 11 x 2 1/2 inches

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Ripe, 2011 8 1/2 x 8 inches

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Sentinel, 2011 13 x 6 inches

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Shower, 2011 19 x 6 x 6 inches

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Early Work

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Dress Sets | 2006 - 2011

Under the Queen Bee’s Dress, 2006 13 x 9 1/2 inches

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Dress Set, 2007 7 1/2 x 12 x 4 inches

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Summer Set, 2009 7 1/2 x 12 x 2 1/2 inches

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page 68 & 69 Bonnie and Clyde, 2008 9 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 3 inches page 70 Marie Antoinette, 2008 12 x 8 x 3 1/2 inches

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Raindrop Dress Set, 2008 7 1/2 x 12 x 4 inches

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Tennis Set, 2009 7 x 11 x 2 1/2 inches

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Suit for a Siren , 2008 9 x 7 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches

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Circus Set, 2010 7 x 11 x 2 1/2 inches

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Animal Suits , 2010 9 x 7 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches

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Inside Dresses, Mechanical & Figures | 2004 - 2011

Early Mourning, 2006 5 x 3 1/2 x 4 inches

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Graft, 2006 5 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches

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Animal Heads, 2005

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Tipple, 2006 18 x 4 1/4 x 4 inches

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The Fox Hunter, 2006 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3 inches

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Sink, 2005 14 x 7 x 12 inches

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page 100 & 101 Dance with Me, 2010 6 x 3 x 3 inches page 102 & 103 A Little Loss, 2006 7 1/2 x 10 x 2 inches

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Girl Honey, 2005 7 x 3 1/2 x 4 inches

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Girl with Rabbit Dress, 2010 13 x 6 1/2 inches

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Late One Night the Hunter’s Wife is Found Out, 2005 12 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 5 inches

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Menagerie, 2006

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Kangaroo, 2006 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches Fish, 2006 5 x 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches

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One Big Bed, 2009 7 x 11 x 8 1/2 inches

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Perch, 2007 18 x 5 x 6 inches

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Reliquary for My Everyday I, 2006 8 x 5 1/2 x 3 inches

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Lunation, 2009 9 1/2 x 5 x 5 inches

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Pollination, 2008 7 x 10 x 6 inches

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Flutter, 2008 14 x 5 inches

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Clouds | 2004 - 2011

A Small Storm, 2009 9 1/2 x 7 x 5 inches

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Separation, 2009 13 1/2 x 9 x 7 inches

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Cumulus 2009 310 x 9 1/2 x 5 inches

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Updraft, 2009 13 1/2 x 8 x 5 inches

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Carmen Lozar in her studio.

CARMEN LOZAR EDUCATION 2003 1999

New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Master of Fine Arts University of Illinois, Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Crafts

SELECTED AWARDS & COLLECTIONS Outstanding Emerging Glass Artist 2009-2010, Florida Glass Art Alliance Finalist for the Bombay Sapphire Glass Prize 2007. London, England Castellani Art Museum of Niagra University. Niagra, New York Museum of Arts & Design. New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS 2003 New Glass Review, 100 artists selected to represent a year in glass 2005 Exquisite Corpse in Glass, catalog by Castellani Art Museum of Niagra University

The Flow, vol. 3, Issue 2. Glasscraft Emerging Artist Award 2006 Glass Art Magazine. March Issue

Glass Art Society Journal,. Vignette 2007 New Glass Review, 100 artists selected to represent a year in glass 2008 Glass Art Magazine. Cover and article. May/June

Glass: The Urban Glass Art Quarterly. Fall.

Glass Line. Aug/Sept 2008. Cover. article written by Paul Stankard 2009 The Penland Book of Glass. Editor: Ray Hemachandra 2010 The Flow. Expanding Visual Concept through Drawing. By Caitlin Hyde Pg. 28

ABOVE Carmen Lozar in her studio working on dress sets for Ken Saunders Gallery, 2011.

BELOW Sketches of a figure.

ABOVE Carmen’s husband, Matt, workinfg in his studio.

BELOW Studio

Matt, Carmen, Greta & Josephina in 2011.

KEN SAUNDERS GALLERY