Lori Park : Wire Mobiles, Assemblages, Textural Panels And Other New Works From Marrakech, London and Dayton
The gallery is honored to exhibit Lori Park : Wire Mobiles, Assemblages, Textural Panels And Other New Works From Marrakech, London and Dayton. Lori Park’s work invites us into a world where form, texture, and transformation converge. Through wire sculptures, assemblages, and richly textured panels, Park explores the expressive potential of everyday materials, reshaping them into objects of unexpected beauty and resonance.
The wire sculptures embody both fragility and strength, their contours tracing gestures in space that hover between drawing and structure. Her assemblages reveal a deep sensitivity to material histories—objects once discarded or overlooked are recomposed into new visual narratives, layered with meaning and memory. The textured panels, in turn, expand this vocabulary, using surface and depth to create fields that oscillate between painting and relief, presence and absence. Together, these works highlight Park’s ongoing dialogue between the tactile and the conceptual. Each piece carries evidence of the artist’s hand, yet leaves room for viewers to encounter their own associations within the materials. The exhibition as a whole underscores the transformative power of art: the ability to reimagine, reconstruct, and ultimately renew.
Lori Park is an award-winning artist with exhibits in Europe, the UK, USA and North Africa. Her work is in royal collections in the UK and Morocco and in private, corporate and public collections in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.
Working from studios in Marrakech, the West of England and Dayton, Ohio, Ms. Park uses a wide variety of materials. She has created large-scale bronze, concrete and mixed-media sculptures, multi-story wire suspensions, large textural panels and found-object assemblages, floating spirals, printmaking and photography, collage, and installations in landscape. She also incorporates scent, LED lighting and night luminescence in her works.
Her childhood art was inspired by her fascination with nature. She studied botany, zoology, economics, and policy analysis, with an undergraduate degree from The Evergreen State College and a graduate degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.
Prior to starting her career in art, she worked in the Pacific Northwest as marine biologist, a wilderness guide and musher, and as a cook on a fishing boat. Following those adventurous years she joined the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington D.C. Later she left the EPA to become a professional artist.
Special Events in the Gallery
Art, Architecture and Appetizers
January 15th, 5:30PM
Begin your evening at 5:30 PM at the Dana L. Wiley Gallery, where you’ll be welcomed into a vibrant space filled with contemporary artwork of Lori Park. Guests will have the special opportunity to hear artist Lori speak about her creative process, inspirations, and the stories behind her featured pieces, offering an intimate look into her artistic world.
Following the gallery experience, the evening continues as guests travel to the historic Bossler Mansion. Step inside this beautifully preserved landmark and explore its rich architectural details. Owner Alona Burns gives a brief history and tour of the Bossler Mansion, a restored 1869 French Second Empire home in Dayton's St. Anne's Hill.
As you wander through the mansion’s grand rooms, enjoy delicious offerings and fabulous spirits from Joui Wine, crafted to complement the atmosphere of the night. From flavorful small plates to thoughtfully prepared bites, the culinary experience enhances the charm of this unique venue. Combining art with beautiful architecture, and exceptional food, this event offers a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in creativity and culture across two extraordinary Dayton spaces.
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Dance Performance in the Gallery
January 25th, 1pm
The performance unfolds among Lori Park’s intricate wire sculptures and immersive installation, transforming the Dana L. Wiley Gallery into a shared world of motion and structure. Dancers move in dialogue with Park’s suspended forms—tracing the curves, tensions, and shadows cast by the woven metal. The choreography draws inspiration from the sculptures’ delicate balance of fragility and strength, mirroring their lines with sweeping gestures, tight spirals, and moments of suspended stillness. As choreographers, Megan Flynn, Teresa VanDenend Sorge and Rodney Veal navigate the installation’s spatial pathways, the boundary between art object and living body dissolve, creating an immersive experience where sculpture and movement shape one another. The result is a contemplative, tactile performance that invites audiences to explore Park’s work and the dancers’ embodied interpretations.
Performers
Megan Flynn
Megan is a dancer, choreographer & dance educator. In 2015, she founded the Megan Flynn Dance Company in Philadelphia. Her choreography has been presented across the US and abroad, including: Dayton Dance Initiative, ATLAS/ ImPulsTanz: Vienna International Dance Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Cincinnati Ballet’s Professional Training Division, FringeArts at the Reading Terminal Market, Philly Fringe, Built on Stilts on Martha’s Vineyard, Dixon Place, WaxWorks at Triskelion, Synergy Dance Series, Cincy Fringe, and BOOM! Charlotte. She earned her MFA in Dance from University of California-Irvine, and BFA from Newcomb College of Tulane University. Prior to joining the faculty of the Cincinnati Ballet’s Academy, she was the Gustave L. Davis ‘59 & Sue Davis Director of Dance/Artist-in-Residence at Union College. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Dance at Muhlenberg College.
Teresa VanDenend Sorge
Teresa is a dancer, dance educator and choreographer. She is the Co-Director of Synergy Dance Series funded by ArtsWave and National Endowment for the Arts. Teresa teaches at NKU, Xavier and Miami Valley Ballet Theatre and is a lecturer at Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia. For nearly a decade, she was a full-time lecturer at Muhlenberg College specializing in dance education. Teresa’s choreography and scholarship has been shared at multiple venues including the Cincy Fringe Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Cincinnati Art Museum, the Mayo Clinic, National Guild for Community Arts Education, and the National Dance Education Organization. Teresa holds a EdM in Dance from Temple University and an MFA in Dance from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Rodney Veal
Rodney is an independent choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist, who served as adjunct faculty of dance at Stivers School of the Performing Arts And also as Adjunct faculty of dance at Sinclair Community College. Rodney Currently serves as Public Media Connects as its newest Producer and Community Arts Liaison and as the host of the Emmy Award The Art Show.
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