photo by Rex
About
BIO
Gera Lozano was born in the Amazon jungle of Peru and was uprooted & transplanted to the urban jungle of Newark, NJ. Lozano received her BFA from William Paterson University, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Today GERALUZ is a conceptual artist based out of New York. Using photo, video performance, artist books, and public art in her practice to create artwork. Bringing light to both sacred patterns, and the patterns woven into our social fabric.
Lozano’s art has been funded by the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, NEA, Creative Work Fund, and the Zellerbach Foundation. Artist presenter & speaker at the New Museum’s New Inc cultural program. Lecturer at University of Texas El Paso, the University of Delaware & The Headlands Center for the Arts.
ART STATEMENT
Focused on reawakening notions of femininity and indigeneity via mixed-media modes, I am an guardian of Mother Earth. Integrating the feminine body as a vehicle, and a critical site of personal and political power. Mapping intimate and public experiences, with a heightened sense of awareness of the natural globalization of existence, I am an editor of reality. I investigate attachments to place, culture & identity. My survey of ancestral wisdom alongside the current zeitgeist, formulates a living hybrid culture where myths and rituals reignite lost connections. Through pattern-making rituals I honor the land in my public art work as a performance of resistance & preservation.
PUBLIC ART
As a Public Artist, I am passionate about the beautification of public spaces, community empowerment & art as a healing tool. Public Art brings forth the magic and wonder of its natural environment. I believe the word “public” in Public Art is the people, the his/her story, and natural phenomena of the place. My process includes an archaeological approach to research, and documenting the distinctive characteristics of each place. Honoring the original spirit of the site, and transforming the history & energy of the place into pieces that exists organically and harmoniously in their surroundings.
Public Artist Collaborator: Jari “WERC” Alvarez.