Sunday, April 19, 2015

Washington Post art critic reviews my show


 From Post Art critic Mark Jenkins

Moving toward the transcendental

In some of the landscapes in “A Quiet Suspension of Time,” Loriann Signori depicts specific places, occasionally even dramatic ones. She is a plein air painter, after all. But this Gallery B show reveals that the local artist is walking away from the specific and toward the transcendental. The loveliest pictures have an otherworldly glow.
Signori calls herself “a painter of luminosity,” which puts her in the lineage of J.M.W. Turner, the 19th-century British prodigy who moved from realism to a sort of impressionism. Where Turner gave oils the spontaneity of watercolors, Signori’s other medium is pastel. Indeed, most of the works in this selection are pastels, often rendered in a narrow chromatic range in the quest for what the artist calls “color vibration.” Narrow distinctions between pinks, reds and oranges yield an enchanted haze.
Remarkably, the artist has managed to transfer this method to oil. Such serene yet vivid paintings as “Diva in Violet and Red” approach the softness, brightness and grainy complexity of pastels. While Signori hasn’t entirely abandoned trees, hills and sky, her newer work is increasingly, and beguilingly, unnaturalistic.

Link to the Washington Post article

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

the frame is part of the whole


oil on linen
We work so hard on our paintings. We torture ourselves to do the best we can, not wanting to accept second best..... but why do we not spend the time and money to choose the perfect frame for it?

Money can be a big issue when we consider framing, but it's money well spent. A frame can either make or break your presentation. For this show I spent what I consider an amazing amount of money on frames. I chose my special paintings to get the full diva treatment. Rather than use a simple floater frame for these, I made the frame match the specialness of the painting. It required over an hour to work with my framer to just figure out just one frame. And it really made a difference. They paintings I spent the most money and time looked best and sold easily.

The painting you see above is one my favorites from this show. I worked with my framer to get it just right. The dark frame next to the painting seemed to suffocate it. I tried everything including floating it to leave the edges present. Then I found another thin violet grey frame and saw that was the ticket! My wonderful framer built it inside the black green frame. It was not a frame I could have imaged, but it worked.

Think about it....what do you want your babies wearing when they go out?
pastel in recessed mat with gold frame

Thursday, April 2, 2015

my new show advertised in the Washington Post

Washington Post:

Going Out Guide for Montgomery County, April 2-8, 2015

April 1
“A Quiet Suspension of Time” An exhibition of plein-air landscape paintings by Loriann Signori continues through April 25. Gallery B, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E,
More info just for you:
*April 4, Saturday -pre-opening party with live music-   4-7pm
*April 10, Friday- gallery reception-  6-9pm
*April 11- artist talk and demo, 3:00-4:00
*April 19, free children's class, 12:30-1:30
*April 25, free adult class, 2:00-3:00