Lori Norwood

Lori Norwood was born in Panama and raised as part of a military family that lived various places in her childhood. She is a former world champion pentathlon athlete and took up sculpting after she retired from competition. She is an elected member of the National Sculpture Society and the 2012 recipient of the Lawrence Phoenix Award for artistic merit. She hails from Austin, Texas, graduated from the University of Texas. Lori is very much an object maker. Her work is underpinned by gesture, movement, and the lines produced in the meeting of volumes. An understanding of anatomy informs everything from the loosest, most spare steel and glass “drawings” to detailed, monumental scale portraiture. Lori currently lives and works in Lawrence, KS.

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