ShowUp, in collaboration with curator Rosa Leff, is presenting Chop Talk - an engaging series of discussions featuring artists from the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Papercutting exhibition. Guided by Rosa Leff, these hour-long dialogues aim to provide audiences with an in-depth understanding of each artist's practice, inspirations, and the techniques incorporated in their work. Chop Talk will be held biweekly via Instagram Live, broadcasted from ShowUp, Rosa Leff, and the individual artists' Instagram pages.
Lorraine Bubar was born in Los Angeles, California and studied art and animation at UCLA and Yale. She worked for many years in the animation industry on animated television commercials and special effects for feature films. Her short-animated films showed at many animation festivals, including the Annecy International Film Festival and the World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb. She taught animation at Santa Monica College for several years. At that time, Bubar was also exhibiting her watercolor paintings, was the featured artist for a calendar published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and illustrated a children's book, Lullaby, by Debbie Friedman. Her love for drawing and painting led her to get a Masters in Art Education and a Teaching Credential at CSULA.
She spent many years teaching drawing, painting, and printmaking to middle and high school students and leading art projects for all age levels at places such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Lorraine Bubar's current painterly papercuts, created from layers of handmade colored papers, reflect the heritage of papercutting found in numerous cultures around the world and capture the diverse ecosystems where she has traveled. Her love of hiking and nature has led her to explore the world and to Artist-in-Residencies at Denali, Zion, Petrified Forest, Lassen Volcanic, and Capitol Reef National Parks. Bubar’s paper pieces have been exhibited in galleries locally and internationally, including Germany, Lithuania, Switzerland, Tasmania, Japan, and the Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale.
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