. Lohr is drawn to things that might otherwise be missed: she hones in on fading signs above stores or on walls, empty tables in diners , pastel pink tiling or desert-like shrubbery. “I’ve always been looking at these traces that people leave behind, and how they’re a record of people’s lives, the stories that they tell and the things that people make to sustain a life,” Lohr explains. “They’re very subtle but they’re everywhere – and not just in the small towns that I have been focusing on.
Travelling by train so extensively, Lohr thinks that her work could amount to a sort of alternative train guide, illustrating as she has so many of the towns found along the USA’s tracks. By walking through these towns she is able to “see what’s in between” and discover the overlooked details that she favours capturing. Lohr has long produced artist books of her work, but Cob Gallery is publishing a first retrospective book alongside the exhibition, bound, very aptly, in dusty pink leatherette .