Lorene Taurerewa, Selected Works, 3-31 October 2014

Lorene Taurerewa is a New Zealand-born artist based in New York. Taurerewa uses drawing to create a universe of characters that she composes into her own unique figurative allegories. The narratives of her work are centered on the dualities of God and evolution; the eternal versus the ever-changing; love and free will versus determinism; the conscious versus the subconscious. These dialectical investigations are manifested in beautiful and delicate figures drawn in print and watercolour or else rendered large scale in charcoal to create powerfully drawn images. The figures are sometimes spontaneous, sometimes deeply still, or bursting with potential energy. Taurerewa's deft hand and years of training have accorded her an immediacy of touch that allows the subjects of her works to oscillate between dualities as she chooses to portray them.