Debra Lott & Jamarr Cox will be in the studio to discuss their upcoming exhibit at Pyro Gallery. Tune in to Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM or Artxfm.com.
Debra Lott is an American figurative artist from South Florida, now living in Louisville, KY. Lott completed her undergraduate degree at Palm Beach International University and received her Master of Arts in Teaching Art from Florida Atlantic University. She studied privately under Graham Ingles, EC Comic illustrator.
Lott is among a select group of artists to have their artwork go to the moon (digital and analog technology in time capsules) and the first woman artist to have her painting on the lunar surface. The Lunar Codex is the first project to put the work of women artists on the Moon and also represents the first figurative realist art on the lunar surface. Lott’s work was selected by Samuel Peralta, the payload coordinator and curator for the Lunar Codex.
Expressionistic realism is what painter Jamarr Cox calls his work. That’s shorthand for art that affects the mind and heart as well as the eyes. The Louisville native likes to get viewers “into a mental corner. Not only discovering things about my art, but about themselves as well,” he says. “[It] consists of visuals that don’t always go together, but somehow seem to work well together. If one second, you’re saying, ‘that makes perfect sense’ and then the very next second, you’re saying ‘that doesn’t really make sense,’ well, then I consider that a job well done.”
