'The Day After Tomorrow'

"The Day After Tomorrow": Lorelei Beckstrom

About the Exhibit: I’ve always considered myself a storyteller- one that just happens to use paint to create new worlds. Reality slips away and I tend to live in them from the moment I wake until the moment I sleep, and if I’m lucky, sometimes in my dreams. The stories are born and come to life as the paintings and I take turns, working together as one. I lead the paintings and the paintings lead me. For decades I’ve wanted to create an epic tale- a saga spanning many generations that reveals itself and evolves in my work over a longer period of time. Each new series will be a chapter in these chronicles that record and preserve the history of this future.
This is the beginning...
Chapter One takes place in Orbiana, a place and time in which orbs have become the foundation of every aspect of life. Deeply intertwined with the natural and technological worlds, they are central to the functioning and identity of this civilization. I don’t know what will happen or where this story will take us, but I invite you to come along with me.

About the Artist:
Lorelei H. Beckstrom is a painter and mixed media artist from the United States, proudly born in Minnesota.
In 2016 she shed nearly everything she owned and moved to London and then Dubai to work on commissions. She continued to move and work where desire and opportunity converged, until she experienced the Republic of Georgia. After time in nineteen countries and a long-term artist residency high in the Caucasus Mountains, she made the country of Georgia her second home.

Lorelei is a self-proclaimed professional student. After studying painting, sculpture, graphic design, and psychology, she designed and built a sculptural solar home in the Rockies, which is her largest work of art to date. She became dedicated to developing the arts culture in Colorado Springs, specifically the Alley Arts District. She co-owned Rubbish Gallery and served as a co-curator and gallery assistant with Modbo and SPQR galleries.

After hanging up her gallerist hat, she was free to focus on her own work and began to exhibit more extensively throughout the region and beyond. She was featured in a surrealist exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, where her paintings hung amongst those of Dail and Magritte. Shortly after, a large-scale painting was acquired for the Sangre de Cristo Art Museum’s permanent collection. This recognition launched the next stage of her career and helped her to realize her lifelong dream of being an artist while living abroad.

Lorelei’s paintings are in private collections in the United States, Mexico, Republic of Georgia, United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates.
Wanderlust inspires her work, so she lives a life that can be carried in two suitcases and a tube of canvases.