Bold Josephine Baker

Statement: Compared to Rauschenberg, Schwitters, and Basquiat, and inspired by Warhol, Joseph Cornell, Robert Motherwell, and Antoni Tapies, I wear my influences on my sleeve. Appropriating relentlessly from art history, advertising, music, literature, culture, religion, and my travels, I plunder everything to create original work that reflects my own experiences as a woman and as an artist. I am driven by eclectic curiosity, and by the joy of juxtaposition. My work is a curiosity cabinet and an apothecary of magic potions and spells. It is filled with poetry, grief, the broken shards of faith, all that I have seen so far, and a veritable lexicon of fragmented symbols. It is the frantic pace of the city and the magnificent silence of the night. It is about love and death and the sacred and inane, and the absurdity and beauty in all things. Lorette C. Luzajic is an award-winning mixed media visual artist in Toronto, Canada. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries, museums, restaurants, hotels, banks, laundromats, art fairs, on textbook covers, as props in movies, in an ad campaign for diamond jewelry, as a 20 foot billboard in New Orleans, and at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has collectors in over 40 countries. www.mixedupmedia.ca