Lilian Day Thorpe, Awake, 2020. Photomontage, 16 x 24 in., edition of 5. Courtesy of the artist and Green Lion Gallery
Pratt in Venice alumna Lilian Day Thorpe (PiV ‘13) has recently opened a one-woman show, “Ten Miles Out,” featuring her photomontage works. The exhibition opened on November 6, 2020 (online) at Green Lion Gallery, Lyme, New Hampshire.
I manipulate and digitally collage my own film photography to create textural montages. The results suggest fictional landscapes that appear simultaneously painterly and photographic. My process engages and explores the contradiction of using a digital medium to evoke tangible, analog sensitivities.
10 Miles Out is an on-going collection of compositions inspired by the drowsy coastal Maine towns of my youth. It is not my ambition to recall particular places in my works. Rather, I aim to build introspection through the use of color, texture, and light. Guided by my instinctive proclivity toward quietness, these scenes offer an escape: a respite from an otherwise loud world.
Thorpe is a photomontage artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her serene compositions are inspired by her love of and need for quietness. A born introvert, Lilian’s soft landscapes offer her a respite from the chaos of New York City. Born in Indiana, Lilian moved to the coast of rural Maine at age ten. In 2014, she received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Photography, including participating in Pratt in Venice in 2013. She then went on to receive her M.S. in the History of Art and Design from Pratt in 2017.
“Ten Miles Out” has been reviewed by Bob Keyes for Portland Press Herald, which may be read online here.
