UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageLoPresti grew up near the Hanford site, where the US manufactured plutonium for the Nagasaki atomic bomb. This personal history imbues his artworks with a nuanced perspective on blistered landscapes. Avoiding overt politicization, LoPresti’s work focuses instead on observed reality filtered through the eyes of a landscape painter. LoPresti is also a practitioner of aikido, a Japanese martial art founded in the ashes of WWII Japan. Aikido espouses a martial philosophy of non-confrontation, an appropriate strategy for facing all-powerful weapons to which there is no real defense.
https://uam.nmsu.edu/eric-loprestisuperbloom/
LoPresti holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is currently working on Center-Surround, a multi-channel video partially funded by a grant via the Carnegie Corporation, to be shown in 2020 at Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan.
LoPresti lives in Brooklyn and practices aikido at the New York Aikikai
http://www.ericlopresti.com/about
