With an education in Bauhaus architecture, fine art, and music composition, interdisciplinary artist, Paul Lorenz combines drawing, sound performance, music, and photography into interwoven visual and audible relationships and realities. The media explores the public and private worlds of place, time, and self. Though blurring and questioning the definitions of abstraction and representation, Paul’s imagery and sound projects always allow the creative process to be the final subject.

Paul was born in Chicago. After graduating from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago (Bachelor of Architecture), he went on to study oil painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the International School of Art in Italy (under Nicolas Carone) and the University of California, Berkeley. Paul completed his MFA in Music Composition from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in February 2019 Paul’s durational pieces are guided improvisations. Linear Stream (2018) and Visual Training (2023), explored interior space by amplifying/manipulating line drawing with graphite sticks, microphones and live musicians. His 2023 solo exhibition, Facts and Truths, at Living Room in New York City, combined acoustic sounds of drawing and saxophone, with suspended graphic music scores.