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Barbara Sorensen

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Florida Artist:

Barbara Sorensen
Sculptor and Printmaker
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Website: www.BarbaraSorensen.com

Barbara Sorensen is a ceramic sculptor & printmaker whose interest in geological formations is reflected in her small, vessel referenced works in clay, for which she was originally known. With this same theme, she is now creating environmental installations with pieces varying in scale from intimate forms to larger than life size goddesses and works on paper reflecting her highly textured surfaces in clay.

Through her work, Sorensen uses hand built forms that are simple and balanced. Sorensen has pushed the clay out from within, expanding the form to emulate the earth's crust. The stoney rough surfaces and hints of gold references antiquity.

A nationally recognized artist, she has studied art around the world and mentored with some of the country's leading ceramic artists. Sorensen moved to Winter Park, Florida from Wisconsin in 1980. It was in Wisconsin that she earned her art degree from the University of Wisconsin and taught art. Since moving to Florida, Sorensen has devoted her time to her artwork.

In 2003 she had one person sculpture exhibitions at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, Florida, Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida and Stetsen University in Deland, Florida. She also had three-one person exhibitions in 2002 at the Florida Craftsmen Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the Avalon Gallery in downtown Orlando, and at the Museum of Arts & Science in Melbourne, Florida. In the past few years, she has also had exhibitions at the Orlando City Hall, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, at Rollins College, the Florida State Capitol Complex in Tallahassee, the Duval-Smart Gallery and Castle Creek Gallery in Aspen, Colorado, the Harris House of the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Albertson-Petersen Gallery in Winter Park.

Sorensen has been published in nationally acclaimed art publications and periodicals. She was recently included in two nationally acclaimed art books, The Craft and Art of Clay, 3rd Ed., 1999, by Susan Peterson and Architectural Ceramics 1999, by Peter King. Her work is represented by the Loveed Fine Arts Gallery in New York City, the Duval-Smart Gallery in Aspen, and Arts on Douglas in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Her work is included in the collection of the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando, the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, the SunTrust Bank in Orlando, Florida, Orlando City Hall, Orlando Court House, Stetson University, Maitland Art Center, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum and the Florida State Capitol. Among her public commissions is the University of Central Florida's Multilingual Multi cultural Center and The Orlando Public Arts Collection at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center. - Barbara Sorensen