Viewpoint Lecture with Lorna Bieber

Multi-media artist Lorna Bieber’s artistic practice is grounded in the principles of appropriating, recycling, and manipulating imagery. Her process emerged while working as a photo-editor for major magazines when she began creating innovative work using found and stock images that she manipulated and remixed on copy machines. Over the past decade, her work has evolved into massive textile pieces, which she calls her Montage series, that take up vast sections of wall but are made from small graphic fragments painstakingly woven together. The exhibition, Lorna Bieber: Natural World, features three works from the Montage series including Tapestry (2015), the first of these works Bieber created. The Ringling will debut two new works, Ordinary Day (2019) and Quiet Night (2022). Lorna Bieber is joined in conversation with Christopher Jones, the Stanton B. and Nancy W. Kaplan Curator of Photography and Media Arts, to discuss her artistic practice, reflect upon the Montage series, and explore the new works debuted in the exhibition Lorna Bieber: Natural World.