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Loretta Lux creates imaginary portraits of children, which call upon the idea of childhood as a paradise lost. The artist executes her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation. Trained as a painter at the Munich Academy and influenced by Old Masters such as Goya, Bronzino, Runge, and Velasquez, Ms. Lux works the entire surface of the photographic image in the computer over the course of many weeks. Subjects are placed into constructed backgrounds and various aspects of the image are digitally enhanced, including the costumes, props and settings. The effect is one of isolation and distance, which shifts Ms. Lux’s images outside the normal realm of portraiture.

Loretta Lux was awarded the 2005 International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award. Her work is included in numerous collections in Europe and the United States, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago, Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Photo Museum Munich; and Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. A travelling retrospective of her work has been exhibited in venues such as the Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; and the Fotomuseum den Haag, The Hague. Loretta Lux was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1969.

Loretta Lux is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York and Torch Gallery in Amsterdam.

For more information, please visit:
Yossi Milo Gallery www.yossimilo.com/artists/lore_lux

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