My work is my autobiography. My drawings explore density and volume…subtle relationships between form and composition… the process of media and the construction of a conclusion. Architecture continues to be the most inspirational means to explore my visual, performance and sound work. The collection of drawings and paintings responds to my Bauhaus education at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. The media flows from formal drafting to calligraphic line making to gestural brushwork. The way of making a line plays on different structures to create varied outcomes. Though the materials and moments may change, a visual vocabulary of mark making, scale and composition stays consistent. Abstraction is not a style, but a state of mind...a balance of subtlety and boldness, confidence and risk...the known, and that what needs to be found

Paul Lorenz is curious. He explores visual and audible work through experimentation and media logic. Where his journey begins is usually very far from where it ends.

With an education in Bauhaus architecture, fine art, and music composition, Paul Lorenz has carved an intriguing niche in the international art world: bridging the immediacy of drawing, sound performance, painting, and digital collage with the logic and detail of architecture. All media are a balance of physical structure (wood, canvas, paper, mylar); visual structure (brush strokes, scrapes, photographs, lines); and color, whether overt or atmospheric, allowing the creative process to be the final subject. The recent work in digital collage is a direct response to life during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The daily need to create has made digital exploration a necessity during isolation. By pouring through a cache of photographs, decades in the making, new compositions and personal definitions are realized. The combination of imagery and geometry evoke architectural spaces or interior landscapes, something that has always been the essence of Paul’s work.