In the fall of 2008, we selected Lori Nozick to be our visiting sculptor for the 08-09 year.   She worked with our students in May, 2009 on a project that was ‘green’ in many aspects.  The sculpture utilizes solar LED lights and recycled building materials, such as windows, doors and pallets.  The site for this project uses as its base what remains of a sculpture made by one of our first visiting sculptors, Dale Newkirk, about 18 years ago. The 2009 sculpture utilizes architectural elements in a playful, non-functional way, thus making an ‘anti-architectural’ statement; stairs and ladders go nowhere, what appears to be a building has no entrance. Walls, floors, and planes shift and create spatial illusions, confusing boundaries and providing visual surprises. The sculpture, titled “Lighthouse”, should be viewed at different times of day (and night), since in the daylight, colored translucent panels are always changing, and at night the solar panels do magical things, especially when looking under the stairs.

Ms Nozick currently lives in New York State, an hour north of New York City.  She got her BFA from Philadelphia College of Art, and an MFA from Pratt Institute. She was a painter for many years, and then began making wall reliefs that incorporated painted surfaces and sculptural elements. Her work became increasingly larger and more sculptural, and she has directed this towards architectural sculpture, constructions, installations, and earthworks.

Ms. Nozick is an Adjunct Professor in Sculpture at William Patterson University, New Jersey, and taught at the American University in Corciano, Italy. 
More recently, she has received grants and awards from Artists Fellowship, Inc. Foundation, Westchester Arts Council Arts' Alive Grant, and Sculpture Key West. Sites for her cast cement sculptures include Yonkers, NY City Hall, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, and she was recently awarded a public art commission from the City of Ferndale, Washington.

In recent installations, Ms. Nozick has used salt blocks, solar energy and LED lighting, mud pigments, and water as elements in her work, and is especially consciousness of renewable sources in art.  Her work can be viewed on her website: http://www.lnozickart.com/

Lori Nozick
P.O. Box 771
Crompond, NY 10517
Lnozickart@aol.com