The Border Artists
Anthony Lazorko will create a woodcut print for its pictorial qualities; other times he is interested in the technical challenge.
Color, composition and tactile surfaces all need to marry with the content.
Visual images should evoke the "at onceness" experience, he says, that speak to all of us.
Lazorko's early artistic roots were in oil painting.
At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, he studied painting and printmaking under the tutelage of Morris Blackburn.
Graphic design eventually became his career, and he retired as news art director for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Lazorko's work is exhibited across the United States and internationally; and in museums and private collections, including the Mulvane Art Museum in Topeka, Kansas, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, Farmington Art Museum, Farmington, New Mexico, and William Patterson University, Wayne, New Jersey.
Recent honors (2008-2009) are from the American Color Print Society (Philadelphia), StoneMetal Press Printmaking Center (San Antonio), the Printmakers Mode, Ciao Gallery (Jackson, Wyoming), the Farmington (N.M) Museum, Wrexham (U.K.) Print International, and SPACE International Print Biennial (Seoul, Korea).