Lorenzo Swinton: Rise

“Rise” by Lorenzo Swinton
Acrylic, Charcoal & Oil Pastel on Canvas

36” X36”

$2860

Earlier this year, Lorenzo Swinton sustained life-altering injuries in a devastating auto accident just outside of Clarksville, TN. This event came within Swinton’s residency in the STATE Scholarship Program, and significantly shifted his trajectory both personally and professionally. Not one to accept any kind of prescribed limitations, Lorenzo nevertheless persisted in his physical healing, and in making new work. Often working from a wheelchair in a makeshift home studio, Swinton began painting solitary, deeply expressive and starkly posed figures in various states of transformation. These works demonstrate how a journey through physical healing necessitates a spiritual healing as well; the resulting collection brings the viewer along on this trajectory from darkness to light, despair to hope.