Lorie Caval

Visual Artist

Lorie Caval is a New York City-based contemporary painter. Her practice explores the intersections between spirituality, personal power, dreaming and identity. Her recent series of acrylic paintings are influenced by 20th century Abstract Expressionism and Spiritual Abstraction while also pushing forth into contemporary themes and aesthetics through playful color palettes. Lorie’s paintings have been shown in various group exhibitions at galleries such as Trotter & Sholer, Upstream Gallery, The Living Gallery, and Art Gotham SoHo in 2024.

Arts Administrator 

Lorie is a Program Officer for a municipal funder of arts and culture. She is also a visual artist, published writer, event producer, organizer, and advocate dedicated to cultural equity and community arts. She holds a Master’s Degree in Arts Administration from Baruch College’s Weissman School of Arts and Sciences and is a Founder Emerita of Baruch Alumni in the Arts (AITA).

Lorie is a native New Yorker of Puerto Rican, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Croatian descent. Lorie has had a lifelong interest in art, intersectional identities and cultural equity. She was a co-founder of the grassroots arts organization, Queens Creative Solidarity in 2015; an Innovative Cultural Advocacy fellow with Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in 2016; and an Advocacy Leadership Institute fellow with the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) in 2023. Lorie is on the board of directors of the Borshch of Art, a nonprofit organization launched in 2024, dedicated to researching and highlighting American artists of Ukrainian descent, contributing to heritage preservation and cultural decolonization.

Writer/ Producer

Lorie’s personal history in the arts dates back to high school when she won awards in Multicultural Understanding and interned at Abron’s Art Center gallery at Henry Street Settlement. Her interest in nightlife was piqued as a regular at New York’s legendary nightclubs including the Limelight, Red Zone, Mars and the Palladium. She would start to meld her love of art, music and social dance by producing and curating her own “Arty Parties” at the age of 19.

She started her writing career in the offices of Paper Magazine as a nightlife columnist and nightclub reporter.

Lorie was the Managing Editor for Mia (a ground-breaking independent magazine for generation X/Y Latinos) Associate Editor for Next Magazine (a widely-read weekly LGBTQ magazine) and freelance writer for various arts and music publications such as Black Book, One World and the Source. 

Lorie co-founded Pro Deuce Entertainment with Eric E-Man Clark; conceptualizing, producing and publicizing underground nightclub events in NYC and across North America which were regularly written about in publications such as ID Magazine, New York Magazine, Time Out New York and DJ Times. Their most notable event was Bang the Party, an event focused on underground House music, art, and dancing that ran on a weekly basis for over six years (1997-2003) and spawned projects like the compilation album “Bang the Party Vol. 1,” (Sony), and a documentary about Bang the Party (featured at the Big Mini DV Festival in 2010). 

Additionally, Lorie is a poet/songwriter, credits including the single, “I Am the Road” with E-Man and Markus Enochson (Masters at Work Records, 2002) and her own spoken-word releases on Liberate Recordings. In 2016, “I am the Road” was used by choreographer Kyle “Just Sole” Clark as the namesake for a piece created for the Ailey II dance company, premiering in NYC and subsequently going on a world-tour.