Before making the move to Paducah, Kentucky, Paul Lorenz has lived and worked in Chicago and Berkeley, California. With an education in Bauhaus architecture and fine art, Paul has carved an interesting niche in the international art world: bridging the principals and emotions of painting with the logic and detail of architecture. Paul approaches painting as a balance of physical structure (wood, canvas, paper); visual structure (brush strokes, scrapes, tears); and color. The structure of color takes on it’s own life while contained on the paintings surface.

Paul has also exhibited extensively in San Francisco, Chicago and Europe. In December 2001, Paul was one of the painters representing the United States at the Third International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy, where he won a fifth place medal for painting. In 2002, Paul again represented the United States while participating in the Paris Triennial.