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'''Margaret Lazzari''' (born 1953) is an American artist, educator, and author, based primarily in Los Angeles, California.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vaughn |first=Susan |date=January 28, 2001 |title=Artist Must Sharpen Marketing Skills to Gain the Necessary Exposure for Craft |pages=W1-W2 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-28-wp-18073-story.html |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref> She is Emerita Professor of Fine Arts at the [[University of Southern California]], Roski School of Art and Design. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Margaret Lazzari {{!}} Roski School of Art and Design |url=https://roski.usc.edu/community/faculty/margaret-lazzari |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=roski.usc.edu}}</ref>She lead the establishment of the design program at that school. She taught in the Master of Fine Arts program and in undergraduate painting, drawing, design and general education areas. Lazzari received her [[Master of Fine Arts]] from [[Washington University in St. Louis]], Missouri. Lazzari's work has engaged a wide range of subjects in both realistic and abstract styles, including bodies<ref>{{Cite news |last=Letran |first=Vivian |date=November 2, 2001 |title=Go Figurative: Realism Returns to Art |pages=E1 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-nov-02-ca-64457-story.html |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, gender<ref>{{Cite news |last=Geer |first=Suvan |date=July 31, 1990 |title=ART REVIEWS: 'Censorship' Explores History of Repression |pages=E1 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-31-ca-995-story.html |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, power<ref>{{Cite news |last=Doherty |first=Jake |date=January 17, 1992 |title=Taking a look back at Guerrilla Girls' shots at the mainstream art world. |pages=E1 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-17-me-136-story.html |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kapitanoff |first=Nancy |date=January 19, 1992 |title=Works About Work: Artists confront the toll capitalism takes on the family and the psyche |pages=E1 |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-19-ca-800-story.html |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news |last=Muchnic |first=Suzanne |date=December 3, 1992 |title=Whither the Biennial Bandwagon?: Critical, Popular Response Will Help Determine Art Exhibition's Future |pages=E1 |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-03-ca-1952-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, censorship<ref>{{Cite news |last=Snow |first=Shauna |date=July 8, 1990 |title=Banned and Booed Art |pages=E1 |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-08-ca-440-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, illness<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visual Art Source |url=https://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=36&aID=4036 |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=www.visualartsource.com}}</ref>, death<ref>{{Cite news |last=Camper |first=Fred |date=January 29, 1998 |title=Still Life With Death |pages=2 |work=Chicago Reader |department=Arts & Culture |url=https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/still-life-with-death/ |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, flowers, and landscapes, as well as pure abstractions. Lazzari primarily paints, but has also produced audio-visual installations<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kandel |first=Susan |date=December 10, 1992 |title=ART REVIEWS: 'LAX': L.A. Is Written All Over It |pages=E1 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-10-ca-2238-story.html |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, and public sculptures<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exuberant Birds: Seabird Pole in Santa Monica, CA |url=https://publicartarchive.org/art/Exuberant-Birds-Seabird-Pole/d1efd67b |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=Public Art Archive |language=en}}</ref>, sometimes partnering with Lauren Evans.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Alumni Spotlight: Margaret Lazzari |url=https://www.slu.edu/universitas/archive/2019/alumni-spotlight-margaret-lazzari.php |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=www.slu.edu |language=en}}</ref>
'''Margaret Lazzari''' (born 1953) is an American artist, educator, and author, based primarily in Los Angeles, California.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vaughn |first=Susan |date=January 28, 2001 |title=Artist Must Sharpen Marketing Skills to Gain the Necessary Exposure for Craft |pages=W1-W2 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-28-wp-18073-story.html |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref> Lazzari's work has engaged a wide range of subjects in both realistic and abstract styles, including bodies<ref>{{Cite news |last=Letran |first=Vivian |date=November 2, 2001 |title=Go Figurative: Realism Returns to Art |pages=E1 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-nov-02-ca-64457-story.html |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Von Blum |first=Paul |date=October 1, 1993 |title=New Visions, New Viewers, New Vehicles: Twentieth-Century Developments in North American Political Art |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/606785/summary |journal=Leonardo, the MIT Press |volume=26 |issue=5 |pages=459-466 |via=MUSE}}</ref>, beauty<ref>{{Cite news |last=Knaff |first=Devorah |date=April 19, 1992 |title=The Idea of Beauty |pages=D2 |work=Riverside Press-Enterprise}}</ref>, gender<ref>{{Cite news |last=Geer |first=Suvan |date=July 31, 1990 |title=ART REVIEWS: 'Censorship' Explores History of Repression |pages=8 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-31-ca-995-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, power<ref>{{Cite news |last=Doherty |first=Jake |date=January 17, 1992 |title=Taking a look back at Guerrilla Girls' shots at the mainstream art world. |pages=B4 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-17-me-136-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kapitanoff |first=Nancy |date=January 19, 1992 |title=Works About Work: Artists confront the toll capitalism takes on the family and the psyche |pages=99-101 |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-19-ca-800-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news |last=Muchnic |first=Suzanne |date=December 3, 1992 |title=Whither the Biennial Bandwagon?: Critical, Popular Response Will Help Determine Art Exhibition's Future |pages= |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-03-ca-1952-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, censorship<ref>{{Cite news |last=Snow |first=Shauna |date=July 8, 1990 |title=Banned and Booed Art |pages=92 |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-08-ca-440-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, illness<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visual Art Source |url=https://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=36&aID=4036 |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=www.visualartsource.com}}</ref> and death<ref>{{Cite news |last=Camper |first=Fred |date=January 29, 1998 |title=Still Life With Death |pages=2 |work=Chicago Reader |department=Arts & Culture |url=https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/still-life-with-death/ |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>. She has also produced pure abstractions<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Daichendt |first=G. James |date=April 1, 2017 |title=Margaret Lazzari |url=https://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=36&aID=4036 |journal=ArtScene |issue=April 2017 |via=visualartsource}}</ref> and nature-based landscape works<ref>{{Cite news |last=Baker |first=Kenneth |date=May 26, 2001 |title=Rothko's greatness in detail, Linnenbrink and Lazzari |pages=C1, C10 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Rothko-s-greatness-in-the-details-Art-historian-2915882.php |url-status=live |access-date=10/21/2023}}</ref>. Lazzari primarily paints, but has also produced audio-visual installations<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kandel |first=Susan |date=December 10, 1992 |title=ART REVIEWS: 'LAX': L.A. Is Written All Over It |pages=F1, F8-F9 |work=Los Angeles Times |department=Entertainment & Arts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-10-ca-2238-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 21, 2023}}</ref>, and public sculptures<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exuberant Birds: Seabird Pole in Santa Monica, CA |url=https://publicartarchive.org/art/Exuberant-Birds-Seabird-Pole/d1efd67b |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=Public Art Archive |language=en}}</ref>, sometimes partnering with Lauren Evans.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Alumni Spotlight: Margaret Lazzari |url=https://www.slu.edu/universitas/archive/2019/alumni-spotlight-margaret-lazzari.php |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=www.slu.edu |language=en}}</ref>

She is Professor Emerita of Fine Arts at the [[University of Southern California]], Roski School of Art and Design. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Margaret Lazzari {{!}} Roski School of Art and Design |url=https://roski.usc.edu/community/faculty/margaret-lazzari |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=roski.usc.edu}}</ref>She lead the establishment of the design program at that school. She taught in the Master of Fine Arts program and in undergraduate painting, drawing, design and general education areas. Lazzari received her [[Master of Fine Arts]] from [[Washington University in St. Louis]], Missouri.


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=== Exhibitions ===
=== Exhibitions ===
Lazzari has had over 40 solo exhibitions of her work including those at the [http://www.billiswilliams.com/ Billis Williams Gallery], Los Angeles, at the [[Fresno Art Museum]]<ref name=":1" />, [[Riverside Art Museum]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 29, 1992 |title=Lazzari, Reyes Work Exhibited |pages=E5 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Knaff |first=Devorah L |date=February 9, 1992 |title=2 Women's Somber Look at Society |work=The Press Enterprise}}</ref>, and [[USC Fisher Museum of Art]]. Her work has been selected for more than 70 group shows. As half of the Lazzari and Evans Public Art Design Team, she has produced eight public commissions, with themes that make evident the persistence of nature in urban environments.
Lazzari has had over 40 solo exhibitions of her work including those at the [http://www.billiswilliams.com/ Billis Williams Gallery], Los Angeles, at the [[Fresno Art Museum]]<ref name=":1" />, [[Riverside Art Museum]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 29, 1992 |title=Lazzari, Reyes Work Exhibited |pages=E5 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Knaff |first=Devorah L |date=February 9, 1992 |title=2 Women's Somber Look at Society |work=The Press Enterprise}}</ref>, and [[USC Fisher Museum of Art]]. Her work has been selected for more than 70 group shows. As half of the [http://www.lazzarievanspublicart.com Lazzari Evans Public Art] design team, she has produced eight public commissions, with themes that make evident the persistence of nature in urban environments.


=== Collections ===
=== Collections ===
Lazzari's work is partly collected in more than 20 public collections, including those of [https://angellfoundation.org/ Angell Foundation, Los Angeles], [[USC Fisher Museum of Art]], Cathedral Collection of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles]]<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 30, 2019 |title=Dedication of Our Lady of Mercy Chapel |url=https://issuu.com/catholictrojan/docs/usccar190707_2019_summer_newsletter_r2 |journal=Catholic Trojan Magazine |issue=Summer 2019 |pages=10 |via=issuu}}</ref>, Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, [[Azusa Pacific University]], [[Harrah's Entertainment|Harrah's Casino]], New Jersey, the [[Saint Louis University Museum of Art|St. Louis University Museum of Art]], and [[Huntsville Museum of Art]], Alabama<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nelson |first=James R |date=July 6, 1997 |title=Huntsville Museum Offers Best Contemporary Art Show |pages=Arts and Leisure |work=The Birmingham News}}</ref>.
Lazzari's works are in more than 20 public collections, including those of [https://angellfoundation.org/ Angell Foundation, Los Angeles], [[USC Fisher Museum of Art]], [[Fresno Art Museum]], Cathedral Collection of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles]]<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 30, 2019 |title=Dedication of Our Lady of Mercy Chapel |url=https://issuu.com/catholictrojan/docs/usccar190707_2019_summer_newsletter_r2 |journal=Catholic Trojan Magazine |issue=Summer 2019 |pages=10 |via=issuu}}</ref>, Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, [[Azusa Pacific University]], [[Harrah's Entertainment|Harrah's Casino]], New Jersey, the [[Saint Louis University Museum of Art|St. Louis University Museum of Art]], and [[Huntsville Museum of Art]], Alabama<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nelson |first=James R |date=July 6, 1997 |title=Huntsville Museum Offers Best Contemporary Art Show |pages=Arts and Leisure |work=The Birmingham News}}</ref>.


=== Publications ===
=== Publications ===
In addition to numerous magazine art reviews, Lazzari has authored or co-authored several popular art textbooks, including: [https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2019940275&searchType=1&permalink=y Exploring Art]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lazzari |first=Margaret |title=Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach |publisher=Cengage |year=2019 |isbn=9781337709910 |edition=Revised 5th |location=Boston |pages=xi-xvii |language=EN}}</ref>; [https://lccn.loc.gov/2020940010 The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist]; [https://lccn.loc.gov/2019462640 Drawing]; [https://lccn.loc.gov/2018038238 Life Drawing]; and [https://lccn.loc.gov/89037294 Art and Design Fundamentals].<ref name=":0" />
In addition to numerous magazine art reviews, Lazzari has authored or co-authored several popular art textbooks, including: [https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2019940275&searchType=1&permalink=y h''Exploring Art: a Global, Thematic Approach'']<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lazzari |first=Margaret |title=Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach |publisher=Cengage |year=2019 |isbn=9781337709910 |edition=Revised 5th |location=Boston |pages=xi-xvii |language=EN}}</ref>; [https://lccn.loc.gov/2020940010 ''The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist'']; [https://lccn.loc.gov/2019462640 ''Drawing'']; [https://lccn.loc.gov/2018038238 ''Life Drawing'']; and [https://lccn.loc.gov/89037294 ''Art and Design Fundamentals''].<ref name=":0" /> ''Exploring Art'' pioneered an innovative thematic, rather than chronological, approach to teaching Art Appreciation, with equal representation of Western and non-Western art.


== Awards and honors ==
== Awards and honors ==

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Margaret Lazzari (born 1953) is an American artist, educator, and author, based primarily in Los Angeles, California.[1] Lazzari's work has engaged a wide range of subjects in both realistic and abstract styles, including bodies[2][3], beauty[4], gender[5], power[6][7] [8], censorship[9], illness[10] and death[11]. She has also produced pure abstractions[12] and nature-based landscape works[13]. Lazzari primarily paints, but has also produced audio-visual installations[14], and public sculptures[15], sometimes partnering with Lauren Evans.[16]

She is Professor Emerita of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design. [17]She lead the establishment of the design program at that school. She taught in the Master of Fine Arts program and in undergraduate painting, drawing, design and general education areas. Lazzari received her Master of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Career

Exhibitions

Lazzari has had over 40 solo exhibitions of her work including those at the Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, at the Fresno Art Museum[18], Riverside Art Museum[19][20], and USC Fisher Museum of Art. Her work has been selected for more than 70 group shows. As half of the Lazzari Evans Public Art design team, she has produced eight public commissions, with themes that make evident the persistence of nature in urban environments.

Collections

Lazzari's works are in more than 20 public collections, including those of Angell Foundation, Los Angeles, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum, Cathedral Collection of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles[21], Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, Azusa Pacific University, Harrah's Casino, New Jersey, the St. Louis University Museum of Art, and Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama[22].

Publications

In addition to numerous magazine art reviews, Lazzari has authored or co-authored several popular art textbooks, including: hExploring Art: a Global, Thematic Approach[23]; The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist; Drawing; Life Drawing; and Art and Design Fundamentals.[16] Exploring Art pioneered an innovative thematic, rather than chronological, approach to teaching Art Appreciation, with equal representation of Western and non-Western art.

Awards and honors

Lazzari's honors and awards for her work include a Visual Artist Fellowship[24] from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1995, and Distinguished Woman Artist, 2015, Fresno Art Museum Council of 100.[18]

References

  1. ^ Vaughn, Susan (January 28, 2001). "Artist Must Sharpen Marketing Skills to Gain the Necessary Exposure for Craft". Entertainment & Arts. Los Angeles Times. pp. W1–W2. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  2. ^ Letran, Vivian (November 2, 2001). "Go Figurative: Realism Returns to Art". Entertainment & Arts. Los Angeles Times. pp. E1. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  3. ^ Von Blum, Paul (October 1, 1993). "New Visions, New Viewers, New Vehicles: Twentieth-Century Developments in North American Political Art". Leonardo, the MIT Press. 26 (5): 459–466 – via MUSE.
  4. ^ Knaff, Devorah (April 19, 1992). "The Idea of Beauty". Riverside Press-Enterprise. pp. D2.
  5. ^ Geer, Suvan (July 31, 1990). "ART REVIEWS: 'Censorship' Explores History of Repression". Entertainment & Arts. Los Angeles Times. p. 8. Retrieved October 21, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Doherty, Jake (January 17, 1992). "Taking a look back at Guerrilla Girls' shots at the mainstream art world". Entertainment & Arts. Los Angeles Times. pp. B4. Retrieved October 21, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Kapitanoff, Nancy (January 19, 1992). "Works About Work: Artists confront the toll capitalism takes on the family and the psyche". Los Angeles Times. pp. 99–101. Retrieved October 21, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Muchnic, Suzanne (December 3, 1992). "Whither the Biennial Bandwagon?: Critical, Popular Response Will Help Determine Art Exhibition's Future". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 21, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Snow, Shauna (July 8, 1990). "Banned and Booed Art". Entertainment & Arts. p. 92. Retrieved October 21, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Visual Art Source". www.visualartsource.com. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
  11. ^ Camper, Fred (January 29, 1998). "Still Life With Death". Arts & Culture. Chicago Reader. p. 2. Retrieved October 21, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ Daichendt, G. James (April 1, 2017). "Margaret Lazzari". ArtScene (April 2017) – via visualartsource.
  13. ^ Baker, Kenneth (May 26, 2001). "Rothko's greatness in detail, Linnenbrink and Lazzari". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. C1, C10. Retrieved 10/21/2023. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ Kandel, Susan (December 10, 1992). "ART REVIEWS: 'LAX': L.A. Is Written All Over It". Entertainment & Arts. Los Angeles Times. pp. F1, F8–F9. Retrieved October 21, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "Exuberant Birds: Seabird Pole in Santa Monica, CA". Public Art Archive. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  16. ^ a b "Alumni Spotlight: Margaret Lazzari". www.slu.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
  17. ^ "Margaret Lazzari | Roski School of Art and Design". roski.usc.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
  18. ^ a b "Fresno Art Museum :: Distinguished Women Artists". www.fresnoartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
  19. ^ "Lazzari, Reyes Work Exhibited". Los Angeles Times. April 29, 1992. pp. E5.
  20. ^ Knaff, Devorah L (February 9, 1992). "2 Women's Somber Look at Society". The Press Enterprise.
  21. ^ "Dedication of Our Lady of Mercy Chapel". Catholic Trojan Magazine (Summer 2019): 10. July 30, 2019 – via issuu.
  22. ^ Nelson, James R (July 6, 1997). "Huntsville Museum Offers Best Contemporary Art Show". The Birmingham News. pp. Arts and Leisure.
  23. ^ Lazzari, Margaret (2019). Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach (Revised 5th ed.). Boston: Cengage. pp. xi–xvii. ISBN 9781337709910.
  24. ^ Alexander, Jane (October 1, 1995). "Fellowships" (PDF). National Endowment for the Arts, 1995 Annual Report. 1995: 76–77.

Other References

  1. https://faculty.cengage.com/titles/9781337709910^
  2. Margaret Lazzari website

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