https://www.lorenschwerd.com/works daily 1.0 2024-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/1563241153623-34OO65URPWDXKUS3GZPH/Loveseat+%23+1+72+dpi+for+web.jpg works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/1564852398656-03TKTWTLEDBCJ0T2RMNI/Autumn.jpg works - Autumn steel, cement, 30’ x 32’ x 2”, 2004 Autumn, was a temporary installation commissioned by the Sumter County Cultural Commission in South Carolina for their fall festival, Accessibility 2004. In order to read the text describing the landscape of South Carolina in the fall, the viewer had to wind between the tall pines that stand beside the County Library. These lines were composed by Julia Mood Peterkin, for her controversial 1928 Pulitzer Prize Winning novel, Scarlet Sister Mary. "The morning air was filled with delicious scents, ripe leaves, fragrant weeds, fresh cotton blossoms and the breath of the dark red earth itself. Summer was over." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/1562882010601-4GXL7W35QUXT9HBCF7XI/Schwerd_Loren_1317+Charbonnet.jpg works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/1562881582773-NUNXZ06OU95B0PPKHJ81/Arcadia_front_72dpi.jpg works - Arcadia netting, thread, steel, 72" xx 120" x 12", 2017 Arcadia was designed for the atrium wall of the newly renovated Richland County Library, Cooper Branch in Columbia, South Carolina. This fiber sculpture was inspired by the cracked surfaces of a large felled tree. It was constructed from layers of transparent netting and machine embroidery that raise the intricate patterns into undulating surfaces and ethereal structures, producing subtle gradations of value. Display lights project shadows of the delicate stitching onto the white wall, generating a sense of movement, and suggesting the gestural marks of a pencil drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/1682965982787-LXOP3524IF98NKAUFUAO/4.+Meander_Bannister.jpg works - Mudlark at The Masur Museum of Art, November 2022-January 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/1709176085634-D5BQCOSVG2789QJEUDP0/28.+Untitled_White+Rope.jpg works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/1709180149464-YT9VVCYDJLBFSRQFHE55/28.+Untitled_White+Rope.jpg works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/1563223029169-BNQCMHMPV05ID0BI0CZX/Plume+72dpi+for+web.jpg works - Plume netting, thread, map pins, wire, raffia, 2010 I began this project, while millions of gallons of oil and gas were gushing from BP’s Macondo Well into the Gulf of Mexico. The newspapers and airwaves were filled with photographs and maps charting the immediate and visible effects of the ongoing crisis, and scientists, hypothesizing the long-term damage to the coastal wildlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/1709148163259-T1KU09DGBM4YGGKXHPYU/1.+Schwerd_Festooned%2C+view+1.jpg works - Festooned, 2022 Bones, plastic shards, and fishing collected along the shoreline https://www.lorenschwerd.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2024-02-29 https://www.lorenschwerd.com/about daily 0.75 2024-02-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/324bdee7-125b-48cb-8078-a430b66cd1e1/Me+with+Rope+1.JPG bio - Make it stand out photo by Jeremiah Arias https://www.lorenschwerd.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2024-02-29 https://www.lorenschwerd.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2024-02-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d27aa3d430cab00019ec8ac/f642f596-579b-479c-af77-9f74c8dcaa3c/Untitled_Tree+Rope+dehazed+for+web+%28final%29.jpg artist statement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.