Born: 1951, Los Angeles, CA
Studied: Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA and Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Currently lives and works in both Los Angeles, CA and Santa Fe, NM

Lawrence Fodor has traveled the world extensively, drawing, painting and researching art history in museums on four continents. Fodor believes strongly in the intellectual, intuitive and emotional power of mark-making. He approaches drawing and painting as a language—a vernacular he is consistently expanding and one through which he believes he communicates best. His studio practice includes painting with oil paint and watercolor on canvas, wood panels, cigar boxes and paper juxtaposing figurative, landscape and abstract idioms and is best described as resonant gestural abstraction. In addition to painting and drawing Fodor also has a lifelong interest in photography, which he pursues with equal commitment.

Lawrence Fodor’s work is included in the permanent collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art, New Mexico History Museum and the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, NM, the Modern Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, Embassy of the United States, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, JP Morgan Chase Corporate Art Collection, and others.