June and July, 2024. Opening June 7th.
Jeffrey Moose Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of new works by printmaker, papermaker and painter Lea Basile-Lazarus for the months of June and July. The exhibition will run from Friday, June 7th through Tuesday, July 30th. A reception will be held on First Friday, June 7th from 6 to 8 PM. A FaceBook walk through with the artist will run from roughly 5:20-5:40. On First Friday, July 5th, Ms. Basile-Lazarus will conduct a paper making demo from 6-8 PM.
Ms. Basile-Lazarus, originally from New Jersey, moved to Chicago where she received an MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1979, with a concentration in printmaking. She has also studied at the prestigious Oxbow School of Art in Michigan, studying mono printing, silkscreen and paper making. She now lives in Gig Harbor, WA. For several years she has traveled to the renowned Hook Pottery Paper in La Porte, Indiana to make paper and her extraordinary paper pulp paintings in a unique studio/homestead/farm environment. The paintings are made with pure paper pulp and pigments. She taught art in public and private schools for 28 years, received a teacher’s Fullbright grant to learn about Japan’s art, culture and educational system and received a grant to visit schools and villages in Ghana, West Africa.
This year’s show features new asymmetrical collages, paper pulp paintings and monoprints. The collages, created from older repurposed works, are often brightly colored and upbeat. She has been making prints for over 40 years but also makes paper. She is a classic American abstractionist, though tiny houses and tree trunks appear ocasionally. Her art relates to colorfield painters and abstract expressionists, with color, texture and grids used as primary subjects. After moving to Washington State in 2020, she began to focus on aspects of her new sylvan and marine environments.
