Laura Malone – The Shimmering Self
October 10 – November 15, 2025
- Oakland Style Week Tour: Saturday, October 11, 11:30- 12
- Artists’ Reception: Saturday, October 18, 3 – 5 pm
- Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, November 7, 5 – 9 pm
- Artists’ Talk: Saturday, November 15, 2 – 3:30 pm
Laura Malone’s exhibition of figurative oil paintings, The Shimmering Self, continues her ongoing exploration of embodied female subjectivity. Through the nuances of her subjects’ body language, as well as her own gestures as she moves paint across a surface, Malone investigates the feminine body and its connection to self and surroundings. Spanning half a decade, these mostly large-scale works traverse a wide range between representation and abstraction, often within a single piece. Moments of ferocious gesture slow to delicate precision, inviting the viewer into a rhythmic journey of brush and body. This sense of continuous flux expresses flowing states of consciousness and is the essence of her point of view. As her subjects’ inner experiences radiate into the environment, they are simultaneously permeated by their surroundings. In this way she invites viewers into an evolving conversation between inner and outer worlds, asking, what really is a self?
