Announcing a great exhibition coming up of contemporary works by the artist Lore at James Gray Gallery.

There is an amazing show coming up of new contemporary works of Lore Eckelberry from January 5 to February 3, 2008


Lore is going to have a great exhibition of contemporary work that demonstrates her amazing artistic talent for contrasting colors to create a great impact to the viewer.
To view more of Lore’s work, visit her website at: http://www.loreeckelberry.com/

The James Gray Gallery is located in Bergamot Station at 25 Michigan Avenue D4, Santa Monica, California 90044. Bergamot Station is Southern California's largest art gallery complex and cultural center, located in the heart of Santa Monica featuring contemporary art galleries and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Bergamot Station has become a popular destination for visitors from around the country and the world; it appears in every guide to Los Angeles as a primary cultural destination, with well over 600,000 visitors each year.

Several of Lore’s pieces will be featured in the show, where you can admire her ability to demonstrate expression of emotion in color as well as her incredible talent for composition. One of the amazing pieces that caught my eye is a black nude exposing a beautiful nude body where you can see the expression of shame in the girl. The way Lore painted it, it is almost portraying a veil covering her yet there is nothing there, there is only color protecting her from the total display of her nudity.

Lore’s contemporary artwork will be featured in a show at Viva Gallery.

From October 21 to November 17, the contemporary work of Lore Eckelberry will be displayed at Viva Gallery.


The amazing new contemporary work of Lore Eckelberry will be shown at Viva Gallery from October 21 to November 17 with the opening reception on November 4 from 1:00PM to 4:00PM.

In this show, one of Lore’s more amazing portraits, “Man Thinking”, shows the soul of a man deep in his own thoughts. Next to him there is a window brilliantly contrasting with the serenity of the face. Lore is a genius in the way she contrasts and composes the painting and the colors she uses to portray a person in deep thought. This painting is another example of the way Lore orchestrates the composition of color to create an impressive portrait. To view more of Lore’s work, visit her website at: http://www.loreeckelberry.com/

Lore says: “while I was painting this portrait I was trying to express the contrast of the face of a person that you can actually see, versus the conceptual viewing of his ideas and thoughts in the person’s mind as they float in his universe. As an artist you have the ability to bring into reality anything that you want and in this case you are painting a reality and you are also painting a two dimensional form of someone’s thoughts and ideas. As a painter you are bringing these thoughts to life in abstract shapes of color. So the window next to the man can be anything you want it to be: a window or the representation of ideas in his own mind.”

Artist Lore in Human Rights art show

The work of the artist Lore Eckelberry is going to be featured in an art show dedicated to human rights.
Lore’s artwork entitled “The Painter” has been selected to be part of the Artists for Human Rights fine art show opening at the James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. The show runs from November 14th through the 24th with an opening reception from 6-9pm on November 17th hosted by Academy Award nominated actress Anne Archer. .To view more of Lore’s work, visit her website at: http://www.loreeckelberry.com/
Lore’s piece will be featured alongside paintings, sculptures, and multimedia presentations by thirty-two international artists each reflecting some aspect of the thirty points of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Film-maker Taron Lexton presents a series of 30 public service announcements on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “intended to give the viewer an intense aesthetic and emotional education on the subject”.Lore said: “In this painting I wanted to convey that artists have often not been allowed to express their own view or perception of the universe. You might see the grass red, yellow, and blue but in “reality” it may be green and you may be squashed for not portraying the actuality of the object and be forced to follow the path that is expected of you because it is generally followed. You have to be very strong to be able to hold your position so that you do not compromise your freedom of expression.

To the degree that artists stick to their own viewpoint, they create a different world and therefore help the expansion of freedom, and as a result there will be a new and better civilization.”
Artists for Human Rights (www.artistsforhumanrights.org) was founded by the celebrated actress and human rights advocate, Anne Archer, with the purpose of bringing artists together with the common cause of raised awareness and education of human rights. Participation is broad-based, embracive of all races, creeds and nationalities with its only prerequisite a support and affirmation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948.The group, founded in 2006, has a rapidly growing international membership base. Human Rights Action Center founder, Jack Healey, has recently joined the Advisory Board. Called “Mr. Human Rights” by US News and World Report, he was the Executive Director of Amnesty International for twelve years and is a human rights policy advisor to the U.S. government."For the James Gray show we have brought together a wonderful, eclectic group of stimulating artists presenting the subject of human rights,” notes AFHR curator Ron Anderson. “It promises to be even more exciting than our 2006 show in Soho. Selected art from this show will be traveling to Biennale 2007, the international contemporary art show in Florence, Italy, which has invited Ms. Archer to speak and has dedicated space to show Artists for Human Rights artwork."