LORETTA HARMS
New York based artist Loretta Harms works across media between fine art, filmmaking, installation and digital design. Her current exhibition takes a hallucinatory lap around the world of Motorsport for her Miami Residency at the Kimpton EPIC Hotel. Heightened states and enigmatic narratives play out on pictorial reliefs with vivid color schemes through a series of limited edition silkscreens printed at Gary Lichtenstein Editions.
The show opens March 6th and in celebration of Women’s History Month, Loretta proudly partners with the Shift Up Now Foundation by donating 25% of all print sales to fuel their mission of supporting female athletes and propelling them into the upper echelons of racing.
Loretta is Executive Producer and Producer of the Sony Pictures Classics released film, ‘Lambert & Stamp’ about aspiring filmmakers Kit Lambert & Chris Stamp, the propulsive management duo behind legendary rock band THE WHO. Following its Sundance Film Festival premiere and international theatrical release, the film has been distributed in over sixty countries and currently streams through outlets Netflix, iTunes, Starz and Amazon Prime.
In celebration of Women’s History Month 2019, her interactive installation WOMEN WHO ROCK! appeared in the heart of Times Square NYC on twelve viewer prompted LED screens spanning the exterior 42nd Street façade of the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT). Featuring renowned photography of iconic musical artists Cher, Joni Mitchell and Tina Turner, viewers were invited to pan, scan, paint and animate into her designed digital sequences.
Employing filmic methods and a Pop sensibility, Harms works circuitous routes within painting, drawing, printmaking and digital design to produce images and projections often enticing viewers into performative roles of tracking or splicing into unfolding narratives. She has recently returned to print media, working by hand and translating layered imagery into large format silkscreens in a confluence of abstraction and Pop.
Loretta is a graduate of Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is the recipient of the Traveling Scholars Award and the Kate Morse and Clarissa Bartlett scholarships in the Fine Arts. Her work has exhibited at the MFA Boston, BMoCA, Kunsthalle Munich, Boston Center for the Arts, in solo and group shows, private and institutional collections.