LOLO, is a Cleveland and Akron based artist that started her art career at Schenley High School in Pittsburgh, PA. One of her many artistic inspirations, Andy Warhol, attended this same school. LOLO rediscovered her love of art in 2003 when she began painting portraits. The first being Frida Kahlo which she still owns today and only loans out. Following the portrait phase, she moved over to the freedom that abstract painting is for her today. LOLO draws great inspiration from the galaxy, water, trees, eyes, feelings, sounds and aura colors. There is a freedom she feels playing with all this inspiration and creates a colorful world to them. It's a passionate journey she is grateful to be on and considers herself an Abstract Expressionist. She expresses herself in various styles and she is currently working on a series with a cubist flow to them set to be released Summer 2023.
Her body of work can be seen all over the country and in some celebrity homes. Her work has been featured at ArtPrize 9 and 10 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, Michigan.For the last 5 years,she became a resident artist at the Metropolitan at the 9 and became their art curator for 2 out of those 5 years. She continues to paint and is working on a series she intends to have for the public by the end of July of 2023. When she is not doing art, she is an accomplished DJ and Producer of an international electronic music and talk Podcast called, LoLo Knows. Follow her on Instagram @lkgallery216 and Facebook @abstractbylo and Tiktok @lolo__knows
LOLO Art Highlights
From Black and White to Color- Metropolitan at the 9 Cleveland, 2022- 2023
The Boxed Gallery, Summit Art Space- Akron, Ohio
W Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
High Street Arts Festival, Akron, Ohio
Charivari Detroit Music and Art Festival, August 2019
ArtPrize 10, Grand Rapids Michigan 2018
High Arts Festival, Summit ArtSpace at the Box Gallery 2018
Uncorked Wine Bar and Gallery July 2018 to October 2018
● Currently working as a Fine Artist and Photographer since 2003 ●
Vice-President of the Euclid Arts Association in 2008 thru 2009
Preferred Mobile Spa service for the Metropolitan at the 9 in Downtown Cleveland- Current
Regular Gallery Artist in Columbus, Ohio, Mac Worthington Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2016
Bombay Sapphire Artisian Exhibition at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Sold Painting, 2016, Detroit, Michigan
Facing The Mirror Solo Art Exhibition at 78th Street Studios, April 2016
Journey to Truth and Wisdom Solo Art Exhibition, Fairmount Center For the Arts, May 2017, Novelty, Ohi0
Landscapes of the Soul Exhibition at the Metropolitan at the 9 Autograph Collection, Cleveland, Ohio, October 2017-Present
Art Prize 9, 2017, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2D Painting, Carmen
CLE-ART for Puerto Rico Benefit, Donated and MC for Show, December 2017
Resident Artist at the Metropolitan at the 9 Cleveland, Ohio