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Artist Exhibitions:
Both of the Lukers, Ted and
Dee, donated a photograph and
two paintings of roosters to
be auctioned off in a silent
auction for the first annual
Rooster Days in York, AL. This
event is used as a fundraiser
to raise money for the Coleman
Center and to promote the ...
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Artist Galleries:
Cristina's Art and Frame,408
Queen City Ave., Tuscaloosa,
AL 35401
205-345-2118
Angel Wing Gallery, Demopolis,
AL Karen Davidson, owner
telephone < 1-334-289-4900.
Jackson Municipal Art Gallery
(in future)Jackson, MS
Laurence Clark, manager
601-960-1582
Presidio Arts at the Mill,
Floyd, VA presidioarts@...
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Artist Reviews:
Dee Luker, The Mad Artist,
opened at the Coleman Center
in July of 2000. This art
museum had the largest crowd
and
the most sales in the museum's
history. Director, Kay Kiker,
said that the show, In and Out
of Reality, was a huge
success!
The SCFAC's Annual ...
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Collections:
Jim Rogers, of the now famous
Millenium Adventure in which
he drove around the whole
globe visiting almost every
contry and most of the
continents in three years,
purchased one of Dee's
drawings of a nude. I
considered it an extreme honor
to have been purchased by such
an ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Delores Jordan
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I've been a stranger to the art world for two years now. I faced a personal tragedy that took me so deep into despair that I was unable to paint through my pain. In the process, I lost my studio and thus, most of my art supplies. I floundered from giving up everything dear to me except my wonderful daughter. She has been a Godsend. I know I have been blessed with an exceptional child. Without her, my life would have been over.
Recently, the awakenings of a desire to draw elicited a feint voice to come back to the art world. This is a world I have been comforted by since the age of three. This very world, served to remind me of many of my most treasured memories, too painful to endure. My husband and I legally separated after twenty years of being together. Idealist, as well as a hopeless romantic, the lost of my biggest dream took me to suicidal depressions. I've passed through a gate where I'm stronger than I ever imagined. Two years of learning to accept the loss of the love of my life taught me many lessons which I hope to interpret artistically. I took up gardening to fill in the need to create something beautiful. Writing was my solice and kept me sane.
This is not an artist's statement as much as it is an update. One day soon, I hope to have new things for my friends to observe. Presently, I want to do some line drawings to warm me back up once more. I know after my garden starts blooming, my art too, shall burst forward with color once again.
Many of the pieces with NFS were given as gifts, kept by me, or in the batch that went to Ireland and they were stolen. Some have been donated to charity and one was lost by me when I moved to Mobile.
The same year I lost my husband, I lost a huge number of nudes to theft. Gullible is another adjective to describe me. I trusted a gallery over in Ireland and never heard from them again. It was bogus to the hilt. So, I guess I can pin the name, "International artist whose work has been stolen" to my resume. I'm not one to bounce as I'm so passionate that everything is intense. Brilliance or sadness, my spirit goes to extremes. I think the sensitivity that saw highlights within shadows and graceful edges of positive and negative space felt the colder side of life overwhelming. Soon though, I will channel my new found self, as I had to redefine who I was, back into my art.
I've become a writer and finished my first novel after three years of writing, rewriting, and polishing the manuscript for submission to locate an agent. Right now, some copies that I've allowed cold readers to read and evaluate for my demographics have shown it crosses age and sex lines. It is a novel about mental illness, multiple personality, sexual addiction, and murder. It is fiction. I'm now working on my second novel, IN THE SHADOWS OF SIN: The Confessions of a Sex Addict, and I'm polishing up a collection of short stories titled, DEELIGHTFUL VISIONS. Between reading good fiction, books on writing, writing, working on editing my writing, and researching agents, etc....I really haven't had time for my art. All my creative energy and passion goes into my writing. I haven't done much gardening this past year as I adopted two Dobermans that have made my lovely backyard their own personal playground.
This August of 2007, I became officially divorced and I have taken back my maiden name. I am now Delores Jordan better known as Dee Jordan. I've come full circle back to the child who drew horses or wrote a children's book at age eleven, along with my friend, Jeanne DeWitt.
I had to rewrite the beginning of my first novel. I've put it up on the shelf to let it simmer for awhile. I'm presently working on the second novel and have written XXXX chapters thus far of the first, very rough draft. The first novel has Lee Thames as the protagonist and the second is written from Joe Thames's point of view. He is the protagonist. Many of the same characters appear in both novels.
I've had a short story serialized and will be published in a Maryland e-zine in September and October editions. I do a monthly column for this e-zine. I am a contributing columnist for New York City Voices and recently one of my articles made the front page! I did a book review for Dustbooks which is the magazine that bookstores and libraries order copies of books. My dear friend's, Sam Pirro's, book Wooings was reviewed by me. The editor also used part of my review as a blurb on the cover of the book. I've rewritten the script of my life and I'm very happy right now.
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