Mixed Media Artist

Following in the footsteps of Rauchenburg and the Pop Artists, I am interested in the interplay between iconography and the use of non- traditional artistic mediums.  As an artistic process, I love the explorative value of using vinyl, fiberglass and plastics and their respective properties and am challenged by the ability to recreate iconoclastic images that are grounded in materials whose primary use is utilitarian.

​"Art is not what you see,
but what you make others see."

-Edgar Degas

PORTFOLIO

Mixed Media Art

Work currently consists of rock 'n roll icons in mixed media and mixed media collages depicting images of social relevance.
"Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves." 
                               -Langston Hughes

Artist CV
Name: Lori Love (aka IRoL eVoL)
Web address: www.irolevol.com
E-mail address:  lopo@aol.com  
                                                                                                                 
Education
MA  University of South Carolina
BA   University of South Carolina
University of Warwick, Coventry,   UK
Studied drawing under Janet Orselli at the Columbia Museum of Art

Awards
Artslant Showcase Winner, Round 8, 2017
Artslant Showcase Winner, Round 7, 2016
Artslant Showcase Winner, Round 7, 2013
ArtSlant Showcase Winner, Round 5, 2013
Art Slant Showcase Winner, Round 4, 2013
Professional Artist, Award Winner:  ”Creative Quarterly Journal,” Vol. 29, 2012
Professional Artist, Award Winner: “Creative Quarterly Journal, “Vol. 28, 2012
VAE Award, “Unfettered”, Paul Bright, Juror
Second Place, “The Power of Innovation”, Jane Allen Nodine, Juror
Abstract Exposure Finalist  

Professional Affiliations
CAL Member present
Resident Artist, Mosaic Studio, 2013-2014
Artist, Arts and Science Council, 2012-present
Artist, Visual Art Exchange, 2012-2015
Emerging Artist, American Juried Art Salon   2012-present
Instructor, Creative Spark Center for the Arts, Mt. Pleasant, SC 2007-2009
Docent and Studio Assistant, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC   2006-2007
Museum Educator, Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC   2003-2005
Selected works are available for purchase at the following locations:
Olive's Mud Puddle, 229 Main Street, Fort Mill, SC
Nadeau: Furniture with a Soul,  3100 South Blvd, Charlotte NC
Mid Century Salvage, 3530 Dewitt Ln, Charlotte  NC

    Contact the Artist
The origin of the IROL EVOL moniker: we wish we could come up with a cool story about how the name came to be
but it is simply the artists' name spelled backward. Sometimes the simplest solution is right in front of you. Occam's razor!