Solo Exhibitions

• “Nature’s Influences”, University College Art Gallery,
• Fairleigh Dickenson University, Teaneck, NJ 2004
• “Breaking Space”, OCCC Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ
• "Pivotal Gestures", 141 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY 2001
• New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 2000
• “Somatic Traces,” The Interchurch Center, Riverside Drive, NYC
• “Interior/Exterior,” Artspace, Richmond, VA      
• “Outdoor Sculpture”, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ 1994
• “Concrete Gardens”  Fulcrum Gallery, 144 Mercer St., NYC
• Quietude Sculpture Garden, East Brunswick, NJ 1992
• “Introductions-1992” Artyard, Denver, CO 1991 
• Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ 1990
• Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 1987
• William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ 1985
• Bertha Urdang Gallery, 72nd St., NYC 1984
• The Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ 1976
• The Bergen Community Museum, Paramus, NJ 

       Selected Group Exhibitions
 
        2005

• “Friends/Influences, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY (3 person)
• “New Directions”, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ (2 person) 
• Lipscomb Gallery, SC Governor’s School for Arts and Humanities (3 person)

       2004 
 

• The Sculpture Mile, Madison, CT
• Tusculum College, Greeneville, TN (3 person)

        2003 
 

• Quigley Gallery, Western State College, Gunnison, CO (3 person)
• “The Solo Works Show”, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
• “New Growth” Art Newport, Jersey City, NY 2002
• “Forms of Matter: artist’s view of nature”, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
• “15th Annual Sculpture Garden Exhibition 2002-2003”, Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ
• “Sculpture in the Garden 2002” Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA

        2001

• “In Sight/On Site, SUNY Fredonia, NY
• “Art/Nature/Nurture,” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

       2000 
 

• “New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition 1999 & 2000,   Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
• “Art/Nature/Nurture,” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau,

        1999

• New Jersey Arts Annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ
• “Waxing Poetic,” The Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ and the Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, TN
• Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City

        1998
 

• “Landscape Revisited,” Polo Gallery, Edgewater, NJ
• New Jersey Arts Annual, Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ

         1997
 

• College of Art and Music, Nanjing, People’s Republic
• “Aljira National” Aljira Center for Contemp. Art, Newark, NJ
• “Breeding & Multiplying” Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead

         1996

• “Personal Landscapes,” City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
• “Sculpture From New jersey”, N J Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
• “10th Anniversary Show,” Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NJ

        1995
 

• “In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the '90s, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
• “Pop Up,” Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
• “Dirt, Dust, Rust, Smut, Soot,” Fulcrum Gallery Soho, NY, NY 1993
• Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ  1991 to 2002 Max Hutchinson's Sculpture Fields, Kenoza Lake, NY 1989-90
• “Sculpture City”, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY 1989
• “Material Forms”, NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, “1989 Fellowship
• Exhibition", The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
•  “Sculpture 1988”, White Columns, NYC

       Bibliography

• 2007 Sculpture Magazine, Photo and listing,  Commissions in Brief, April.
• 2006 The Star Ledger, “Nature in Clay,” Dan Bischoff, November 22. The Gazette, “Artist mixes concrete, plants,” Sam Passow, October 11.2
• 2005 The Bergen Record ,”Meadowlands sculpture planned”, Carolyn Feibel, Feb. 24
• Jersey Journal, “Sculpture Garden Artist Picked”, Patricia Churpakovich, Feb. 26
• The South Bergenite, ”New sculptures to grace the NJMC”, F. Timothy Martin, March/02
• 2003 Sculpture Magazine, “Sculpture in the Garden”, Marty Carlock, April  
• 2002 The Independent, Stockbridge, MA, “Sculptures that blend with the garden,” July The Artful Mind, “Sculpture Now” Kathleen George, July
• 2001 US One, “‘Natural Selections’ by Elaine Lorenz,” Pat Summers,December19.
• 2001 The New York Times, “Artistic Fury Born of Anger,” Claudia Kuehl, July 22
• 2000 Montclair Museum Catalog, “Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America,” Gail Stavitsky
• 1999 Trenton Times “NJ Arts Annual on View at State Museum”, Janet Purcell, Aug. 6
• 1997 New York Times, “Facing Concepts of Decay and Regeneration”, Helen A.Harrison,   August 17
• 1996 Newark Star-Ledger, “Sculptors, painters give their imagination free rein,” review by Eileen Watkins, May     
• 1996 A Guide To The Sculpture Parks & Gardens of America,Jane McMarthy & Laurily K. Epstein, Michael Kesend  Publish.Ltd.,NY  
• 1994 New York Times, “Sculptural Works That Defy the Limitations of Definition” review by Vivian Raynor, May 29
• 1994 Newark Star-Ledger, "Art at Schools”, Carmen Juri, February
• 1993 Newark Star-Ledger, review by Eileen Watkins, July
• 1992 Rocky Mountain News, ”Sculptor's Coaxing of Life from Concrete”, review by Carol Dickinson, February
• 1991 New York Times, “Imagery with a Surrealistic Accent”, V. Raynor, July
• 1991 Newark Star Ledger, review by Eileen Watkins, May
• 1990 Newark Star Ledger, review by Eileen Watkins, October
• The Bergen Record, review by John Zeaman, October
• The New York Times, review by Michael Brenson, July
• Art In America, “Sculpture City”, By Jane Dodds, January
• 1989 The Village Voice, "Machine Dreams'' by Guy Treby, October
• Interiors Mag., “Organic Sculptures from Elaine Lorenz”, April
• The New York Times, review by Vivian Raynor, September
• Newark Star Ledger, review by Joan Babbage, September

        Collections:  

• New Jersey Meadowlands Commission Headquarters & Environmental Center, Lyndhurst, NJ
• McNeil Specialty Products Co., A div. of Johnson & Johnson, McIntosh, AL
• The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
• William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
• The Castrol Corporation, Wayne, NJ
• Wragge Collection, Boca Raton, FL
• AT&T, New York, NY
• GTE Corporation, Dallas, TX
• Park 80, Kidde Associates, Saddle Brook, NJ
• Fort Lee Executive Park, Ft. Lee, NJ

        Awards:

• 2005 State Sculpture Commission for the NJ Environmental Center Headquarters at DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst, NJ
• 2001 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship Grant
• 2001 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant
• 1999 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant 
• 1989 Athena Foundation Grant, Socrates Sculpture Park
• 1988 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant
• 1981 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, accepted
• 1981 Yaddo Colony Fellowship, did not accept
• 1975 Artist-in-Residence Stillman School Tenafly, NJ
• 1973 Mr. & Mrs. Salomone Prize, National. Assoc. of Women Artists
     
  Education:
   
• 1997 M.F.A. Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, VT
• 1967 B.A. Fine Arts, Marietta College, Marietta, OH