The Gerald Peters Gallery page for Lorraine Shemesh: On Balance describes the artist’s work as follows:

The work of Lorraine Shemesh dynamically illuminates lived experience in a universal and transformative manner. She has developed a process that employs palpable figuration and conceptual abstraction by working with pattern on form. Using figures and shapes in motion, Shemesh addresses ideas of both disjuncture and harmony. The relationship between tension and tranquility is made visible as an expression of the human condition in lyric form, through her tactile and luminous handling of materials. The coming together of the figures in the paintings, and the banding patterns of alternating colors in the ceramic vessels, are a response to the human desire for connection. This is especially salient during moments of trying to hold on while having to learn to let go. It is no accident that the language used to describe elements in working with the figure mirror components of a ceramic piece; the lip, the neck, the shoulder, the belly, and the foot all come together to form the whole. The sense of fluidity and rhythm in Shemesh’s work is generated by her lifelong interest in dance. The work takes into account the fact that professional dancers are encouraged to fall in rehearsal so that they may know the tipping point of any given movement. In visual terms the notion of being “on balance” demonstrates the wish to take everything into consideration. In so doing, her work balances a myriad of aesthetic choices formidably, while seamlessly provoking a wide range of interpretations.

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