Fragility and Impermanence by Lori Illner Greene

Lori Illner Greene explores ideas of fragility through figurative sculpture, pastels and encaustic painting. Her work is informed by ideas of energetic connections associated with particle physics. She often utilizes the technique of paper mâché like assemblage to create sculptures that become the subject of her photographic imagery, drawings and paintings.
Illner Greene participated in both solo and group exhibitions at Loyola University, Chicago, IL; Waubonsee Community College Sugar Grove, IL; and Fort Madison Area Arts Association (FMAAA), Fort Madison, IA. She participated in the SkyWay juried exhibition in 2004 held annually in varying Chicago suburbs and two different juried public art exhibitions in Aurora, IL in 2006 and 2007. Recent solo exhibitions are Pastels at FMAAA in 2018, and in 2019 with Raptors at the Visiting Artists Gallery, Burlington, IA.
Illner Greene has received coverage for her artistic achievements in The Beacon-News, Aurora, IL and Elburn Herald, Elburn, IL along with Pen City Current and the Daily Democrat, of Fort Madison, IA and the Burlington Hawkeye, Burlington, IA. She has her own Art Matters column in the Pen City Current and is now Executive Director of the FMAAA Art Center.
Attending Mundelein College (Loyola University) 1987-91, she graduated with a bachelor’s in history, minoring in art and biology. Returning to study both art history and studio art she attended Waubonsee from 2003-2007. Illner Greene enrolled in Sierra Nevada University (University of Nevada) in 2020 and will graduate with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts in the Fall of 2022. Her art education bookends and punctuates a career spanning GPS and agribusiness consulting, information systems design, historical building renovations and Inn proprietorship, and her current role as Executive Director of the Fort Madison (Iowa) Art Center.