Loriann Signori

For the past 40 years, Loriann has worked as a landscape painter. While her preferred mediums have always been oil or pastel, her methods, techniques, and aesthetic aims have all undergone significant transformations since she began.
She learned her craft in the studio and outdoors. She received a BFA from Swain School or Design, and an MFA – under full fellowship – at American University. Since then she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her work is included in public and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. In the past few years she was featured in the Plein Air and Home and Design magazines and the book Drawing 365.

I am a painter who is inspired by the landscape. Her poetic, everchanging beauty is a vehicle by which I explore possibilities of color.  I build my paintings on ideas, and the multitude of color combinations available to me is my language. My objective is to create a color vibration that allows the viewer to experience a deeper feeling, a moment of “ah.” 

Each painting goes through a process that begins with an underpainting and progresses with thin layers of glaze. Oftentimes it is necessary to scrape, rub or sand the surface in order to maintain the translucence I desire. Like an opal, each layer of color affects the other layers.  This constant alteration is not an intentional process but the byproduct of my striving to make it say more.

2017 ­ “Between Silences”, Gallery B, Bethesda MD.

2016 ­ “Intimate Landscapes,” Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda MD.

2015 ­ “A quiet suspension of time,” Gallery B, Bethesda MD.

2014 ­ “Vibration, Mystery and the Landscape,” Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda MD.

2012 ­ “Quietude,” Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD.

2010  “The Magic Hours,” Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD.

2009  “Man vs. Nature,” Dumbarton Gallery, Washington DC.

2008  “The Beauty of Nature,” Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda MD.

2006  “Pastel Through the Seasons,” Glenview Mansion Gallery, Rockville MD

2019  International Pastel Society, Pastel World, biennial exhibition, Albuquerque, NM

2019  25^th Warm Springs Gallery, Anniversary Show, Warm Springs MD

2018  Pastel Society of America, “Enduring Brilliance,” New York, NY

2018 International Pastel Society, “Webshow”.

2018 ­ UCONN Art Gallery, “Renaissance in Pastel,” New London, CT

2018 ­ Warm Springs Gallery, “Ephemeral,” Warm Springs, VA

2018 ­ American Art Company, “32^nd Annual International Exhibit,” Tacoma WA

2016 ­ Merritt Gallery, “New works,” Chevy Chase MD

2015 ­ Waverly Street Gallery, “Invitational,” Bethesda MD

2015 ­ Salmugundi Club, “International Pastel Society 28^th Juried Exhibition,” New York, NY

2015 ­ Randy Higbee Gallery, “6×6,” Costa Mesa CA

2015 ­ Waverly Street Gallery, “Red” Bethesda MD

2013 ­ Seville Gallery, “Plein Air,” Cumberland MD

2012 ­ Sedona Art Center, “Plein Air Invitational,” Sedona, AZ

2011 ­ Ratner Museum, “7 Degrees of Separation,” Bethesda, MD

2009 ­ Strathmore Gallery, “Shades of Pastel,” Bethesda MD

  2009 ­ Mattatuck Museum, “Renaissance in Pastel,” Waterbury CT 

  2007  LeKAE Gallery, “American Women Artists,” Scottsdale AZ

 2006, Peninsula Gallery, “Introducing,” Lewes DE