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Lori Kay:
Lori Kay is a sculptor and mixed media artist. She received a B.A. in Art and Art History from the University of California at Santa Cruz with additional course work at the University of Geneva and Basel Gymnasium, Switzerland. She then spent a year as an apprentice in the foundries and marble yards of Pietrasanta, Italy Her full and rewarding career started with pubic and private commissions in her twenties that has lead to working in a wide variety of mediums and venues.
Over the last seventeen years, Lori Kay has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. Her awards and grants include the Peninsula Community Foundation, the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, artist in residence with the Arts Council of San Mateo County, Silicon Valley Arts Council, California Arts Council, Children's Shelter and Norcal -SF City Dump. Her public commissions and exhibitions include the cities of Fremont, Half Moon Bay, Mountain View, San Francisco State University, California and Bellevue and Seattle, Washington. Her elegant sculptures reflect a gracefulness of form, balance and space. She is inspired by the simplicity of Zen sculpture gardens, forms from nature and the human figure manifesting in her work as a singular statement. Her work addresses issues of identity, gender, self-portraiture, portraiture of cultures, Silicon Valley high tech influences, ancestral Asian heritage, spirituality and celebration of nature.
A Native Californian and mother of identical twin toddlers, she cultivates a close connection to both the urban art milieu and nature. She maintains studios in San Francisco and in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
