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René de Loffre: Statement
Because I enjoy seeing both realistic and abstract images in paintings, I have chosen to deny myself neither by combing these two worlds into my own work. This has turned out to be a fascinating in-between zone that allows me wide flexibility to create imaginative results.Although my paintings are primarily created with oils on canvas, I find that the addition of materials along with the oils provides me with more tools to achieve the "wide flexibility" I need and seek; materials such as modeling paste, colored pencil, fabric, paper, image transfer, tape, stencil, cutout, etc. My work is currently concerned with interpreting the tools of the artist's trade, things like brushes, paint tubes, paint boxes, color samples or mixture studies, pigment producing plants and all sorts of like objects. In addition, I am producing paintings that reflect my deep interest in the field of biology as an attempt to represent metaphorically, that which reveals the very core of one's existence.  Biography
As a child René de Loffre immigrated to the United States from Normandy, France. His family soon moved to Los Angeles where he still resides. Retired from thirty-five years as a public-school educator, he is now a fulltime artist working from his home studio in the Hollywood Hills. He holds a B.A. in fine arts and an M.A. in art history. He has also studied at Chouinard, Art Center School of Design, Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, and is currently working with the artist Tom Wudl. During the 1980's, de Loffre left studio work for fine art photography. By 2003 he was making computer manipulated photo images and in 2004 he returned to painting. De Loffre is currently a member of Gallery 825 (LA Art Association), the Ellie Blankfort-Peter Clothier Artist Group, and served as a member of LA Artcore's Board of Directors from 2003 to 2005. |