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Work Statement

While inclined toward making intimate, iterative art objects including painting, sculpture and installation, drawing is my primary medium. Within the context of a daily drawing practice, I explore mark making as a diaristic record. I choose materials based on a range of qualities from nostalgic references to inherent affect, colors and textures. 

In each series, I establish rules that are made to adapt and expand, taking direction from subtle variations that emerge through repetition. Each series becomes an example of the nuanced ways a part relates to a whole, an individual to a larger system, a day to a lifetime and so on. 

In Botanicals, I am inspired by abstracted shapes and patterns in the natural world and the way they have been depicted in manuscripts, textiles and other objects of ritual. In Diamond Grids, I complicate an initial grid pattern and reference aerial landscape views, culinary arts and weaving. In Scapes, both large and small scale, I practice basic elements of design, as well as create mind maps of imagined sculptures or surreal landscapes. 

In these and in many of my earlier series, work begins with an existing or handmade grid, from which I create an environment of call and response – where rules are challenged in a generative way. This method allows for a celebration of art as a tool to connect to the present moment, both within oneself and with others.

Dori Latman (b. 1979, New Jersey) received an MA in Urban Studies, San Francisco Art Institute; Post Baccalaureate Certificate, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; BFA in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in group shows with Monument, Kingston, NY (upcoming), Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; David & Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY; 510 Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, among others. Latman currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.