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NEWS
May
2007
I
have been accepted to the MFA program at the University of Guelph.
I'll begin my studies in September 2007. http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/
This
year I'll also be participating in Toronto's
Nuit Blanche September 29, 2007.
January
2007
Happy
new year! New paintings.
Busy
working through my needlework mentorship with Tracy
A. Franklin - getting ready for a workstudy with her
April 2007.
October
2006
I
am now represented by Tatar Gallery in Toronto. www.tatargallery.com
Along
with new artists, staff and website the gallery has moved to a new
location. See details from their press release below:
"We
are pleased to announce that all of our exhibition programming will
now take place at The Spoke Club, 600 King Street West, 4th Floor,
Toronto. Daily business will be conducted from our offices across
the street at 527 King Street West, Suite 300. Please feel free
to drop by our offices or make an appointment to visit the exhibition
at the Spoke Club.
As a satellite venue, The Spoke Club shall provide a space of experimentation
for Tatar Gallery and the artists it represents. More than just
a promotion of the latest developments in contemporary art, our
exhibition programming is designed to demonstrate new strategies
in the presentation of art and to explore the ensuing spatial relationships."
August
2006
I
am a happy recipient of a Visual Arts Development Award!
The
Visual Arts Development Awards (VADA) is co-run by the Vancouver
Contemporary Art Gallery and The
Vancouver Foundation. It supports non-structured programs
of artistic learning and non-institutionally based professional
development for emerging and mid-career artists.
In
my case, I'll be learning traditional needlework techniques to integrate
into my paintings. I will be working with Tracy
A. Franklin, a recognized leader
in the needlework field. With over 20 years of study and experience
in the areas of textiles and needlework, Tracy is a sought-after
teacher, speaker and academic in the UK and abroad.
The
mentorship begins with 6 months of study by correspondence and concludes
with a residency at her studio in Durham, UK spring of 2007.
Press
Release (PDF)
More info about the award is available at http://www.vada-awards.org/
January
- March 2006
In
the studio.
Read
Clint
Burnham's review of "Help Your Self"
as seen in the Vancouver Sun.
December 30, 2005
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you and your friends to a group show, "Help
Your Self", at the Helen Pitt Gallery 102-148 Alexander Street.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 6, 2006 at 7:00 pm.
Among the insightful works on display by local and international
artists, I will have a series of small paintings on copper titled
"Plans: Affirmations".
All the best to you and yours for the holidays and 2006.
Hope to see you at the opening!
Warm regards,
Laura
Help Your Self
The Helen Pitt Gallery
102-148 Alexander Street
Friday, January 6-Saturday, February 4, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday, January 6, 2006 at 7:00 pm
* Overhead Projector Performance at 8:30 pm *
Amelia Bauer, Robert De Saint Phalle, 536 Collective (Jeremy Turner,
Donato Mancini and Patrick "Flick" Harrison), Matt Gerring,
Laura Madera, Sandra Meigs, Mariah Robertson, and Tobias Wong
Taking its inspiration from the Self-Help and Actualization Movement
(or S.H.A.M as author Steve Salerno wryly notes), this exhibition
comprises painting, sculpture, performance and digitally based works
by eight artists from Canada and the United States. The works in
the exhibition consider dichotomies inherent to this pervasive and
controversial movement including, striving/acceptance, spirituality/superstition
and hope/despair.
open:
Tuesday to Saturday
12 to 5pm
Free admission
everyone welcome
October 15, 2005
A series of my paintings, titled Borderlands, is on display
at Atelier
Gallery.
The show opens on October 15 and runs until the end of the month.
Below are a few installation shots. Click
here to read my artist statement.
"Cruising
these residential Sunday
streets in dry August sunlight:
what offends us is
the sanities:
the houses in pedantic rows, the planted
sanitary trees, assert
levelness of surface like a rebuke
to the dent in our car door.
No shouting here, or
shatter of glass; nothing more abrupt
than the rational whine of a power mower
cutting a straight swath in the discouraged grass.
But though the driveways neatly
sidestep hysteria
by being even, the roofs all display
the same slant of avoidance to the hot sky,
certain things:
the smell of spilled oil a faint
sickness lingering in the garages,
a splash of paint on brick surprising as a bruise,
a plastic hose poised in a vicious
coil; even the too-fixed stare of the wide windows
give momentary access to
the landscape behind or under
the future cracks in the plaster"
from the poem “The City Planners” by Margaret Atwood
The series of paintings, titled Borderlands, begins in
the suburbs of Toronto and Vancouver. It documents a search for
those rare moments that make a banal setting stand out. Maybe it's
the light in the trees, a haphazard construction out of snow - something
catches your eye, and in that moment allows for a glimpse, a pause,
some magic. Focusing on this unexpected pause, I create allegorical
images of familiar settings. I am interested in exploring the poetic
nature of subtle strangeness and personal expression in stayed environments.
In the shifting borderlands of the city, nowhere meets somewhere,
and the pavement can give way under your feet if you let it.
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