Renee Lachman

To know a person, know her roots. My roots start in New York, with a childhood mixing the urban landscape in Queens and the wilderness of summers spent at my grandmother’s farmhouse upstate. The sense of being an independent explorer and collector never left me and contributes greatly to my work now. I observe, collect, and piece together fragments that reflect my questions about ancestry and domesticity, memory, and the tangle of past and present. I graduated from Philadelphia College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing and went on to receive my master’s in Fine Arts in Painting from George Washington University. I found myself involving narrative more in my work and occasionally attempting to blur the lines of time. For example, a brown woman collecting fresh fruits and vegetables from a marketplace could be contemporary just as easily as she could be an ancestor. Her work and needs are as timeless as her vivid yellow and red garments. I love to acquire new skills; they allow for different avenues of communication. I enjoy painting landscapes and figures, making assemblages, making masks, collages, and sculpture. Samples of my works are included under the portfolio.