Dr. Lori lectures in the Lehr Gallery at the Susquehanna Art Museum

Installation view of watercolors in the main galleries of the Susquehanna Art Museum

Another installation view of watercolors in the main galleries of the Susquehanna Art Museum

Exhibition  

A Thin Line ~ A Broad Brush
The Art of Bruce Johnson

Susquehanna Art Museum
301 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
February 24, 2002 through May 31, 2002

Gallery Talk by Dr. Lori
March 14, 2002 at 7 p.m.

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Art historian and Masterpiece Technologies Inc.'s director Dr. Lori guest curated the exhibition "A Thin Line ~ A Broad Brush: The Art of Bruce Johnson," which is hosted by the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, PA from February 24 through May 31, 2002. The show features more than 100 works in oil, watercolor, and pen and ink by the prominent Central Pennsylvanian and internationally recognized artist Bruce Johnson. As an expert and scholar in American art, Dr. Lori was approached by the Museum to curate this first major museum exhibition of Johnson's work.

As curator, Verderame places Johnson's work within the context of art history. "Johnson's watercolors reference the tradition of American plein air painting or painting outdoors in artist groups like the great watercolorists Winslow Homer, Emile Gruppe, Edward Hopper and Harrisburg, PA's Seven Lively Artists" states Verderame. Johnson also brings art to Everyman using popular images from American culture in his pen and inks like fellow artists in working in the 1980s, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf." Johnson studied with American art masters including: Pennsylvania Impressionist Walter Emerson Baum, American art legend Will Barnet, Op Artist Edna Andrade, and Philadelphia colorist Jane Piper. 

Johnson's works are included in the collections of the Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Foods, the Children's Miracle Network and Binney & Smith/Crayola, among others. The State of Pennsylvania, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Ronald McDonald House Charities have also commissioned works by Johnson.

Dr. Lori is the director of the fine art resource www.DrLoriV.com and Masterpiece Technologies Inc. in Bucks County, PA. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Wesleyan University and earned her Ph.D. in art history from The Pennsylvania State University. She has taught art history at the Penn State University, the State University of New York, and at the Yale University Art Gallery. Dr. Lori has held museum positions at the Allentown Art Museum, Muhlenberg College, and the Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State. Additionally, she has trained museum docents at the James A. Michener Art Museum as well as curated exhibitions at Colgate University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Iowa. 

She recently authored a book titled, Seymour Lipton: An American Sculptor in conjunction with the exhibition which is traveling to college galleries and museums throughout the country. Her most recent article titled, "Bucks County Artists" was published by the art journal American Art Review. Dr. Lori also appears on the CBS KYW-TV 3 program Trash or Treasure? in Philadelphia, PA providing appraisal and collecting tips to their viewers. 

Please feel free to contact me with your questions and comments concerning this exhibit. 

Dr. Lori
Director, Masterpiece Technologies Inc.