{"id":1785,"date":"2015-07-22T14:19:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2018-05-25T02:15:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:15:23","slug":"mara-lonner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/mara-lonner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara Lonner"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3620\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1785-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/maralonner.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/maralonner.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/maralonner.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1788 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mara-w-rise-in-claremont-03-copy.jpg?resize=224%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mara w rise in claremont 03 copy\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mara-w-rise-in-claremont-03-copy.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mara-w-rise-in-claremont-03-copy.jpg?resize=765%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 765w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mara-w-rise-in-claremont-03-copy.jpg?resize=624%2C835&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mara-w-rise-in-claremont-03-copy.jpg?w=1936&amp;ssl=1 1936w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mara-w-rise-in-claremont-03-copy.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>Mara Lonner lives and works in Los Angeles and received her BFA and MFA from the California Institute for the Arts. She works with a variety of mediums and genres to blur the conventional distinction between organic and geometric worlds. Recent work interweaves ruins, architectural ornaments and botanical forms, focusing the subjects on loss, extinction and the beautiful tenacity of nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0She Is a SOE Lecturer at University of California, Irvine and has also taught at CalArts and Long Beach City College. She was twice awarded the Durfee Foundation ARC Grant and received a California Arts Council Grant. She was recently awarded a residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation for the fall of 2014 and is the 2014 Resident Artist at the Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Recent exhibitions include: Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Cue Art Foundation, New York; LAXART, Culver City, CA; and large scale wall works for the Hagga Gallery in Descanso Gardens, La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge, CA, and collaborations with Kim Schoenstadt, for the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan and the Los Angeles International Airport. Her first permanent public art project commissioned by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission for\u00a0 a new community center in San Angelo Park\u2019s community center La Puente, California, was completed in June, 2015. The second, in collaboration with Kim Schoenstadt and for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, is for a new Intergenerational Center in the San Fernando Valley.\u00a0 Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority awarded her a large glass pavilion project, which will be a part of the new LAX\/Crenshaw line, slated for completion in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Learn more by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maralonner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">visiting her website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1786\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1786 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/landscape-joplin-MI_washington-IL-overall-leon-camera.jpg?resize=625%2C318&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"landscape joplin MI_washington IL overall leon camera\" width=\"625\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/landscape-joplin-MI_washington-IL-overall-leon-camera.jpg?resize=1024%2C521&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/landscape-joplin-MI_washington-IL-overall-leon-camera.jpg?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/landscape-joplin-MI_washington-IL-overall-leon-camera.jpg?resize=624%2C317&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/landscape-joplin-MI_washington-IL-overall-leon-camera.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/landscape-joplin-MI_washington-IL-overall-leon-camera.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Studio shot, Destruction Burnout (Landscape 1-Joplin MI and Washington IL), 2014, Chemical process on silk\/rayon velvet with mixed media, 8\u2019 x 17\u2019 x 1\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1787\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1787 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lonner_San-Angelo_lower-northeast-corner-metal_artwork-and-shadow-detail.jpg?resize=625%2C936&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lonner_San Angelo_lower northeast corner metal_artwork and shadow detail\" width=\"625\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lonner_San-Angelo_lower-northeast-corner-metal_artwork-and-shadow-detail.jpg?resize=684%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 684w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lonner_San-Angelo_lower-northeast-corner-metal_artwork-and-shadow-detail.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lonner_San-Angelo_lower-northeast-corner-metal_artwork-and-shadow-detail.jpg?resize=624%2C935&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lonner_San-Angelo_lower-northeast-corner-metal_artwork-and-shadow-detail.jpg?w=777&amp;ssl=1 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Angelo Landscape (detail), 2015, Project for the Los Angeles County Art Commission for a new community center by Birda Group Architects in San Angelo Park, La Puente, CA. , Coated Steel and paint, 17\u2019 x 34\u2019x 3\/4\u201d &#8211; Photo: Jeff Mclane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/maralonner.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMara Lonner lives and works in Los Angeles and received her BFA and MFA from the California Institute for the Arts. 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