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From afar Lorraine Serena’s miniature shrines seem like festive religious artifacts. Closer examination reveals something at once more personal and more subtly clever; shrine-like works that pile up references and cohere into ambiguous daydreams, without absolute dogmatic reference points. Serena has a lively painterly sense with the unpretentious-ness of folk art and appears to have no qualms about mixing up metaphors and blending myth and reality, humor and mysticism. Josef Woodard, SBNP/LA Times Critic
