Lori Larusso: A Paradox of Plenty Catalog

Lori Larusso

A lavishly illustrated and designed exhibition catalog commemorating the exhibition "Lori Larusso: A Paradox of Plenty" at the Arkansas Museum of Fine arts (August 26, 2025--May 3, 2026). This catalog includes a director's foreword, and two lively, full-length essays by Dr. Catherine Walworth, organizing curator of the exhibition, and cultural historian Dr. Jessica Burstein.

Featuring both detail images of the artist's paintings, as well as gallery installation photographs and an exhibition checklist, the catalog provides documentary evidence of the exhibition. It is also a riveting marriage of text and image in its own right and will be appreciated by art enthusiasts. The subjects range from contemporary consumerism, ecology, synanthropic animals, Dutch still life painting, Thing Theory, and popular culture, all interwoven in an engaging scholarly voice.

Lori Larusso is an American visual artist whose practice encompasses painting and installation, examining themes of class, gender, and anthropocentrism--and how these systems both mirror and shape culture. Dr. Victoria Ramirez is executive director of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Jessica Burstein, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington in Seattle, and is the author of Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art.

Catherine Walworth, Ph.D., is the Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., Curator of Drawings at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and the author of Soviet Salvage: Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism.