Biography

Flash Animation with sound.

Tumbleweeds, prairies, cattle ranches, dust bowl, etc. are the backdrop for much of Lori Nix’s photographic work. She has lived most of her life in the Midwest—Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. The series "Accidentally Kansas" depicts natural disasters constructed from models and elements from her rural youth – buckwheat flour, sawdust, feather boas, and bamboo skewers. Her homemade scene of tornadoes floods, animal fatalities, and insect infestations offer a surreal yet humorous vision of survival in the mundane landscape of the Midwest.

Since Lori has recently transplanted herself to New York City, she has begun to create landscapes in a broader context. No longer solely exploring the Midwest and its disasters, she is now examining the boundaries where city and rural landscapes meet. The phrase du jour, urban sprawl, is given a slightly acidic perspective in recent photographs.

Lori Nix has received numerous photography awards. She is a 1999 recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant; a Greater Columbus Ohio Arts Grant recipient in 1998; and participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2000. Her photographic series "Accidentally Kansas" which as been nationally exhibited in both group and solo formats, can be viewed at www.opensewer.com. Currently she has exhibited at SF Camerawork in San Francisco, and will be showing at the Houston Center for photography in spring 2001, and a solo show at Epixenter Gallery in Houston, Texas in 2002.