Lorette C Luzajic
Artist member since 2018
ProToronto , Ontario
Lorette's award-winning mixed media paintings have been collected in more than 40 countries worldwide, including Canada, USA, Japan, Germany, Peru, Israel, Tunisia, Belgium, Italy, France, Estonia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Qatar, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and beyond. They hang in collections alongside originals by Miro, Erte, Dubuffet, Ellsworth Kelly, Jim Dine, Jane Ash Poitras, and Benjamin Chee Chee. They have been exhibited in galleries, restaurants, art fairs, real estate stagings, and as props in cinema. They have been shown on a billboard in New Orleans, in hotels in Tunisia, on the cover of two textbooks, as examples in a book about collage, at the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, at several galleries in Mexico, featured in a magazine ad campaign for a luxury jewelry company in Madrid, and displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Lorette won first place and a $5000 award from Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment with E11even Restaurant for one of her paintings. She was invited to participate in an international artists symposium in North Africa. She has thrice been a judge for the Boynes international art awards and for the arts awards for the City of Barrie.
Lorette teaches mixed media art and art appreciation to clients at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She is also the editor of The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry, and of The Ekphrastic Review, the flagship journal of literature inspired by visual art, and the founder of The Ekphrastic Academy, teaching art appreciation and creative writing by Zoom around the world.
She also writes flash fiction, poetry, prose poetry, and creative nonfiction, usually about art and artists. Her work has been published in hundreds of literary journals and various blogs, and has been nominated multiple times each for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, Best American Food Writing, Best Microfictions, and Best Small Fictions. She is the author of several collections of poetry and small fictions, including The Rope Artist, Disgust, Winter in June, The Neon Rosary, and Pretty Time Machine.
She is a breast cancer survivor. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
"A superhuman effort to coalesce the imaginative world." Moray Mair, Mutant Space Arts
"Luzajic, like Wonder Woman, is her own institution." Paul Robinson, Blog Critics
"Queen of the fantastic." Carrie Shibinsky, Art Bomb Daily
"I collect colours, words, images, and impressions, driven by an eclectic curiosity and a hunger for things that are beautiful and broken. I take joy in juxtaposition, layering gestures, snippets, and a spectrum of emotions. Deconstructing things and putting them back together is how I manage the world around me. Creating something from chaos and sharing it with the world is, for me, the meaning of everything."
Work
Large Works
Don't Let What You Are Get in the Way of What You Can Be
- Lorette C Luzajic
- 48" x 48" x 1.5"
- $2500 buy — $150 try
Graffiti Rococo in Blue and Pink original abstract painting
- Lorette C Luzajic
- 40" x 30" x 1.5"
- $1400 buy — $100 try
Thrill of a Lifetime original urban abstract expressionist painting
- Lorette C Luzajic
- 48" x 36" x 1.5"
- $2800 buy — $140 try
Big Bright Beautiful Day original urban abstract painting neoexpressionism collage mixed media urban
- Lorette C Luzajic
- 40" x 30" x 1.5"
- $1600 buy — $100 try
Exuberance colourful abstract graffiti wall art
- Lorette C Luzajic
- 40" x 30" x 1.5"
- $1600 buy — $100 try
Nothing But Blue Skies original abstract painting blue and white
- Lorette C Luzajic
- 40" x 30" x 1.5"
- $1600 buy — $100 try
Deep Forest green abstract vertical painting
- Lorette C Luzajic
- 30" x 40" x 1.5"
- $1600 buy — $125 try