Gallery Artists

Sally Lutz

ARTIST STATEMENT

Traveler Series 2004-05
The Traveler series began as an exploration of loss but evolved into a way of trying to understand the significance of my relationship to various people and places. My work has often reflected a longing to gather together incongruous things in strange but seemingly knowable places. More recently it has involved a search for meaning in the unlikely juxtaposition of object and landscape. Some places are invented, intimate spaces, while others might seem to be archetypal representations of various landscapes of my past.

My process has evolved to include drawing in various media, photography, both as a source of ideas and as elements of collage, and painting in oil, either on paper or directly on mylar, canvas or linen. My palette often reflects memories of cracked stucco walls, faded silks and the antique weavings of Guatemala where I lived for many years.

BIO

A member of the Bromfield Gallery since 2002, Sally Lutz received a Master of Liberal Studies in Studio Art from Dartmouth College in 1990. She has also studied at the Museum School in Boston, MA. Her exhibition experience has included North Cambridge Open Studios and participation in various two person and group exhibitions at the Bromfield Gallery. In 2002 she represented the membership of the Gallery as a participant in Artcetera in Boston, MA.

Lutz has co-founded several institutions, including the Civil Society Institute in Newton, MA, Payne Project, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, and CIRMA, a social science research institute in Antigua, Guatemala, C.A. She lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts.