Lorna Ruth Galloway

Lorna Ruth Galloway Collecting Somewhere, Broward College South Campus Art Gallery, March 14th - April 28th 2022

Born and raised in South Florida, Lorna Ruth Galloway is an artist and educator. Her work draws upon experiences growing up blocks away from US Highway 1 and thereby, witnessing the rapidly changing sub-tropical urban landscape. The aesthetics of impermanence as it played out on the American roadside have been an integral part of the development of her overall visual worldview.

Galloway is known for her large, tiled photo-based print installations, but for her 2022 solo exhibition at The South Gallery, she will create an intimate space that will reflect a combination of her studio and her home, allowing the public to explore and engage with her studio practice. The works exhibited will include in-process quilt squares, large prints of wheat-pasted landscapes, collections of meaningful postcards, and small drawings of empty signage. The open floor space of the gallery will be furnished with a collection of thrift store chairs and the artist will be in residence at the gallery on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., during the dates of the exhibition. She invites visitors to sit and engage with her while she continues to work on art using 1930s quilt patterns. The quilt is an homage to her late great-grandmother and was inspired by a trip that the artist took to visit her 1934 gravesite. The dialogue and interaction the artist has with visitors during the making of her work will serve to remind all that the process of making work is just as important, if not more than the completed works themselves.

As part of her exhibition and in homage to Women's History Month, the artist invites people to drop off gently used clothing in support of the charitable organization Women in Distress as well as hygiene products for Broward College's Seahawk Outreach Services. These donations will become a part of the work and on display for the duration of the exhibition and at the end, fully donated to each of the named organizations to assist women who are in need.

Collecting Somewhere will be open to visitors from March 14 - April 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 17 from 1 - 4 p.m., with the Artist Talk at 2 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to attend in person. The event will not be recorded.

Details will be available on the gallery's Instagram

Dates: March 14 - April 28, 2022

• Monday - Thursday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

• Friday: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

For private viewings or to schedule class field trips, contact Gallery Curator Kohl King, at 954-201-8987 or kking2@broward.edu.

https://calendar.broward.edu/recurring/0314-mtwr-collecting-somewhere.html

About the work

The works included in this exhibition range from two large scale wheat pastes, four color halftone screen prints, polaroid transfers, colored pencil drawings, vintage postcards, and quilt blocks made from 1930’s patterns. All photo based works on paper use photographs taken by Lorna Ruth Galloway as their source. 

The large scale wheat pasted images are cell phone photos taken on a hike in J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area in Palm Beach County after a prescribed burn. The photos have been enlarged and tiled to fill recycled plywood. Tiled pieces are laser printed on letter size copy paper, trimmed, and then pasted on the plywood with a homemade glue made of flour and water. 

The quilt squares are made using 1930’s patterns and muslin fabric remnants that are OEKO-TEX and GOTS certified. This certification sets the standard for organic organic materials, including the environmental impact of the mills and the mill workers labor conditions, backed up by independent certification. 

The hand pulled four color (CMYK) halftone screen prints were created as part of a series that was made possible with the help of an undergraduate research grant from Florida Atlantic University. The project focused on documenting mid century modern architecture around Florida. An extension of this project was made for the Jaffe Center for Book Arts in Boca Raton as part of their Helen M. Salzberg Residency in the Book Arts and can be seen in the collections at the Jaffe as well as the University of Miami.

Polaroid transfers are made by taking a photo with polaroid film and peeling it apart before its fully developed. The emulsion is then transferred onto watercolor paper using a brayer. 

https://lornaruthgalloway.com