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Lori Nix was born in Kansas, United States in 1969. She studied ceramics and photography at Truman State University, Missouri and Ohio University, Ohio. A landscape photographer at heart, Lori Nix has been building and photographing complex dioramas in her Brooklyn, New York apartment for nearly a decade.

Begun in 2005, “The City” series painstakingly recreates miniatures of architectural spaces to reveal an unsettling world where not al is what it seems. The cycle of nature is referenced as wild animals and vegetation gradually reclaim the buildings once dedicated to history and science. With Nix's foreboding sense of humor always in full force, the work brings into focus the ever-constant dilemma of humanity's catastrophes repeating themselves and how the end of civilization can ironically reflect the beginning.

Lori’s photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States including shows at George Eastman House, ClampArt Gallery, New York, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, and the California Museum of Photography.

Artist Statement

"I do not know what is going to be our undoing; unbridled progress, climate change, nuclear annihilation, a nasty virus, an object hurtling through space, or something not yet imagined. My photographic series “The City” imagines a future post human, post mankind. What will become of the cities and our symbols of culture, capitalism and humanity? Upon our exodus, ceilings cave in, water mains break, buildings and bridges collapse under the weight of rust and mold. At first glace, these post apocalyptic dioramas may strike a delicate nerve, but upon closer inspection, one might take notice of a new kind of urban renewal. A city devoid of it’s inhabitants is not divorced of life. Local flora and fauna, now flourish in the same institutions of science and art, once dedicated to man’s triumphs over mother nature. We view these scenes from a safe distance and are able to indulge in our morbid fascination with what is wrong in the world. Like staring at a car wreck along the side of the road, we cannot look away."

For more information, please visit:

Galleries:

CLAMPART: www.clampart.com

G Gibson Gallery:
www.cggibsongallery.com

Miller Block Gallery:
www.millerblockgallery.com

Lori Nix:
www.lorinix.net