Lorena Levi, winner of Jackson’s Portray Prize 2022 joins the judging panel for this years competitors. Right here, the oil painter shares her recommendation for different artists submitting their work and shares a number of the artworks that encourage her personal artwork follow.
Above picture: Rising pines, 2022, Lorena Levi, Oil on wooden, 75 x 100 cm | 29.5 x 39.3 in
Might you inform us a bit about your self and your work?
Lorena: My identify is Lorena Levi, I’m a story portraiture artist based mostly in London. My work switches between portraits of individuals in my private life taking a look at their inside worlds and relationships, and analysis initiatives the place I exploit the web to gather details about strangers in unorthodox strategies (chat room websites, psychoanalytical papers, journey advisor critiques), once more all for their psychology.
Sisters, 2019
Lorena Levi
Oil on MDF, 90 x 100 cm | 35.4 x 39.3 in
What have been your exhibition highlights of 2022? Who’re the artists or artworks you had been most impressed by this previous 12 months?
Lorena: A newer one which impacted most likely each portrait artist together with myself was the Lucian Freud: New Views on the Nationwide Gallery. His earlier work the place he exaggerates the dimensions of the eyes are significantly impactful for me. They’re arresting work the place the viewer can have a window into the topic’s persona by their manner and gaze.
I noticed the Annette Messager: needs, problems on the Tel Aviv Museum of Artwork and located her act of story telling by sculpture actually shifting. Her methodology of displaying her inside world by tangible objects felt actually intimate
Work mom, house father, 2021
Lorena Levi
Oil on wooden, 40 x 60 cm | 15.7 x 23.6 in
How essential do you suppose awards and competitions are for artists at the moment?
Lorena: I might at all times advocate newer artists to use to competitions and prizes. It’s a extremely glorious approach to get your work seen by individuals you’d discover tougher to entry in any other case. Once I determined to do artwork full time I put a lot consideration and time into making use of for competitions and exhibitions. I received numerous rejections however some successes and it’s not solely nice for constructing thicker pores and skin however will get your work seen by these already within the business.
A sort of household portrait, 2021
Lorena Levi
Oil on MDF, 70 x 50 cm | 27.5 x 19.6 in
What is going to you be in search of within the entries submitted to the competitors this 12 months?
Lorena: As cliché as it’s I’ll be in search of one thing I haven’t actually seen earlier than. Work that makes me wish to see what different work the artist has carried out and the way their fashion will proceed in future work. I’d actually wish to see artists work have an intimacy between portray and viewer but in addition one thing that holds a type of universality the place individuals can recognise the theme of the portray in their very own life and previous experiences.
Twins, 2017
Jordan Casteel
Oil on canvas, 182.88 x 142.24 cm | 72 x 56 in
Do you have got any recommendation for artists on the market enthusiastic about getting into Jackson’s Portray Prize this 12 months?
Lorena: Don’t overthink what you need to put in, don’t take into consideration which portray will win you a prize. Base it completely off what work you like and what work you felt keen about when creating. Submit work that’s intrinsically you and your fashion.
The Household, 1988
Paula Rego
Acrylic on paper on canvas, 213.4 x 213.4 cm | 84.0 x 84.0 in
