Lozar’s work includes diminutive celebrations of the everyday, small pieces that venerate daily life. Taking a hot bath, sleeping alongside a loved one, eating voraciously out of a garden - there is nothing particularly unusual about any of these events, yet the documentation of small pleasurable occurrences serve to provide stable ground in an often pessimistic and jaded world. An icon that reveres the taste of last year’s sun-ripened tomatoes also serves to remind us of the potential of future summers. These accounts often present improbable interactions with nature, appearing innocuous or even charming; they are full of the faith, which accompanies hopeful idealism.

Born in Illinois in 1975, Carmen Lozar uses glass as a means manifesting emotional perception in a physical form. During her undergraduate career at University of Illinois she interned at Bullseye Glass Factory in Portland, Oregon and attended Pilchuck Glass School as a Saxe award recipient and staff member. After completing her BFA she ventured to China, Indonesia, Thailand, and India to explore eastern traditional art. Upon her return she moved to the Southwest and opened a casting and flameworking facility in Tucson, Arizona.

In October of 2000, Carmen accepted a residency from Corning Museum of Glass and went on to be awarded a Master of Fine Arts from Alfred University in New York in 2003. Carmen shows regularly across the country and was a demonstrator at the International Flameworking Conference in Salem, New Jersey as well as The Glass Art Society Conference in St. Louis. In 2008, she returned to the International Flameworking Conference as the keynote speaker and demonstrating artist. She currently resides in Bloomington-Normal where she maintains her studio and is faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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