Fall 2025 Exhibitions, Gallery Talks, and Events
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MARK LORE
Retrospective: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Exhibition: September 2 – 26, 2025
Reception: Friday, September 5, 4 – 6 pm
“Impact”, 2021, oil on canvas, 40 x 20 inches
Artist’s Statement
“As a contemporary painter, my landscape-inspired works explore the emotional resonance of color, texture, and light. Blending elements of abstraction and realism, my practice reflects a deep engagement with the natural world and its ability to stir memory and perception. Working primarily in oil and acrylic, I build layered compositions through expressive brushwork and palette knife techniques, creating surfaces that are both bold and contemplative. The use of rich contrasts and tactile textures evokes the shifting moods of land and sky, transforming familiar scenery into immersive fields of energy and atmosphere. Each painting becomes a reflection of inner and outer landscapes, capturing the subtle tension between observation and interpretation. With a focus on the sensory experience of place, my work invites viewers to connect emotionally with the environment and to experience color not only as a visual sensation but as a force that shapes space, movement, and memory.”
Mark Lore graduated from Gardner High School in 1973, earned an Associate in Art degree from Mount Wachusett Community in 1975 and then transferred to Massachusetts College of Art and Design, completing a BFA degree in painting in 1979. He remained in Boston for several years, had two successful solo exhibitions and became a show designer of competitive drum corps and marching bands in New England and New Jersey until 2004. As a show designer and instructor, he used his artistic skills to create visual performances interpreting musical scores. He also continued to explore landscape painting, entered local art exhibitions and completed several commissions for the City of Gardner, all while getting married and having a family. In 1989, he returned to college to complete an Art teacher certification in NH and an MEd degree in Creative Arts from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Thus began a 28-year long career as an art educator in public schools in North Central Massachusetts, teaching kindergarten to 12th grade.
Mark Lore is currently a featured artist at The Boulder Gallery in Fitchburg and represented by the Teravarna Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. His work is included in the 89th Annual Regional Art & Craft Exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum. His work was published in Studio Visit Magazine, a juried international publication by The Open Studio Press; and he was a featured artist in Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine published by The Circle Foundation for the Arts in Lyons, France.
He is an active artist in the local community and Boston area participating in ArtsWorcester, Gardner Area League of Artists, Greater Gardner Art Association, Princeton Arts Society, Newburyport Art Association and is a member of The Copley Society of Art. Mark Lore lives in Gardner with his wife Renee and has a studio and gallery in the School Street Art Studio Building in Gardner, MA.
Instagram: @marklorefineart