My work explores the experience of being alive – the joy of being a body and the sorrow of its many losses. I explore the body as both subject and object, to elicit a felt sense of its interiority and to know its pleasure through the act of painting.
The bodies are the object of a gaze that is tender, occasionally saucy, never distant. Choosing themes of vulnerability, impermanence, and intimacy, I land at the intersection of beauty and sadness. Often, I am attempting to reconcile ideas that are in some way alienated from each other: love and horror, suffering and acceptance. We live in a world where all of this is happening at the same time. How do we hold it all at once? By juxtaposing these opposing forces, I hope to penetrate a deeper truth.
Select Exhibitions
Spring is in the Air
Studio Shop
Gallery, April, 2024
A Fragile Balance. Mercury
20, March 29-April 27, 2024
Personages ACCI
Gallery, March 1-April 7, 2024
Artists for Ukraine Fundraiser. Shoh Gallery,
March 15-16, 2024
Studio Shop Grand Reopening Exhibition Studio Shop Gallery, February 15, 2024
Art for the Winter Solstice. Mercury 20, Dec 1-30, 2023
Layered
Beauty. Studio Shop
Gallery, July 14- August 5, 2023
OPEN UP. Mercury 20, May 12-July 29, 2023
Blink. One West Grand Avenue, Chicago. April 3- 24 2023
Crocker Kingsley National Art Competition 2022. Blue Line Arts, December 3 2022 – January 14, 2023
Crisp. The Artist Residency Project Fall 2022 Group
Exhibition. School of Visual Arts, New York, Dec 21, 2022 – Jan 31, 2023
Women Artists Making Their Mark. O’Hanlon
Center for the Arts Online Gallery Show, August 15 – November 6, 2022
Kipaipai Fellows Exhibition. Melissa Morgan Fine Art, June 4-July, 2022
Disrupted. Sergio Gomez
Curates, March 14-April 30, 2022
Faces and Places. dodomu gallery Los
Angeles, Brooklyn, New York, December 2 2021- January 4, 2022
Art in the Time of Corona, Volume 2
2021, Dab Art, Los
Angeles, Ventura, Austin, Mexico City
Portrait. Queen City 15 Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York, June-August
2021
Femme. Art Fluent, Online Exhibition, March 2021
Disrupted Realism, Buckham Gallery, Flint Michigan, April 9
– May 15, 2021
East Bay Open Studios, Oakland,
California, 2003-2012
Somarts, Group Exhibition, San Francisco, California, 2000
Gallery Spagnolo, Violencia: An Interactive Art Piece on Violence And
Beauty in American Media, 1996
Mesa College, Student Exhibition, 1993
Residencies
Here/Now Residency, Ongoing Virtual Residency
School of Visual Arts, New York, Fall Residency,
2022
New York Crit Club, Virtual Residency with Mira Schor, 2022
Publications
Studio Visit Magazine Volumes 51 & 52, Winder, 2023
Memberships
Co-Founder, Art’s Pupils, Discussion group on contemporary artists and
art
Kipaipai Fellows, Professional
Development for Artists
First Person Artist, Online Artist
Community, part of KiPaiPai
New York Crit Club, Selected artists participate in classes, crits
and community
Artist Alliance Online Artist
Community managed by Gallerist Jen Tough
Currently Represented by:
Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA
Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
Education
Primarily self-taught, Laura has been immersed
in art via her upbringing as the niece of Richard Artschwager. She has studied
with Alex Kanevski, Jennifer Pochinski, Vincent Desiderio, Catherine Kehoe and
Judith Kruger among others. Organizations she has studied in include:
The Alternative Art School, NYC
The New York Crit Club
Art Digger Lab
California College of Art Extension
UC Berkeley Extension
City College of Berkeley
23rd Street Studio, San Francisco
Mesa College
Otis College of Art and Design
Formal Degrees
San Diego State University, MA in Educational
Technology
Oberlin College, BA in Creative Writing,
