When creating art, I become engrossed in the imaginary play I experienced as a child,
free from societal definitions, restrictions and cultural messaging from the outside world.
As a medium, Assemblage provides me with the greatest freedom to explore my
imagination, and the creative opportunity to utilize and repurpose familiar objects and
materials not intended for art. While selecting and orchestrating these new relationships
between disparate shapes and textures, I am able to transform the utilitarian into
aesthetic and people and parodies emerge as if reborn.
As an artist, my desire is to covey a joyful experience of remembrance, playful
discovery and the liberation in seeing the world in a new way.
Biography:

Caren Lorber is a Los Angeles native, graduate of USC and resident of San Francisco.
After spending 25 years in broadcast advertising sales for CBS and NBC, she chose to
pursue new directions and fulfillment in the arts, living in Taos, New Mexico and
traveling extensively.

Caren is a self taught artist who began creating her assemblages during a time of selfdiscovery
and a re-examination of her emotional and material attachments. She has
had a lifelong desire to be of and in the creative world.
Since Caren began dedicating herself to living her passion as a full-time artist, her
mirthful assemblages have been shown in dozens of galleries and venues throughout
the Bay Area. In 2002, Caren was chosen as an Artist in Residence at the Legion of
Honor Museum in San Francisco, selected by the 2008 San Francisco International Arts
Festival and recently included in an exhibition presented by the Womenʼs Caucus for
the Arts.