Untitled 2023
A recent source for collage elements is an old photography magazine from the early 1960s containing black and white art photos of people and animals. Many of the photos feature nude models who fit the beauty aesthetic of the time…
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Entries by Laura Abrams
“In the Garden” Collage Series
/in Flower and Fauna, Inspirations/by Laura AbramsMy garden looks a mess. Fallen leaves, tangled branches, winter buds, spent and spotted leaves, remnants of flowers and fruit, and traces of foraging raccoons and squirrels. If you can’t beat ‘em… join them. Lots of fodder for art!
Art of Opportunity
/in Perspective/by Laura AbramsCall it land art, graffiti, urban blight or environmental vandalism. I call it “art of opportunity”…
The Great Wave
/in Inspirations, Recurrent Motifs and Ideas/by Laura AbramsOver the last months, I have been preparing artwork that is meant to conjure water for a juried exhibition titled SHIMMER:
The theme of the show is inspired by a quote from Toni Morrison, who wrote “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” …
MAKING A DOLLHOUSE
/in Personal/by Laura AbramsThe curators of Dollhouse: Art as Serious Play honored me with a request to create an art dollhouse from a pre-fab cardboard structure. Here is a little bit about my process It was so much fun!
World Making
/in Personal/by Laura AbramsDollhouse: Art as Serious Play has deep personal resonance for me. I wrote this article for the exhibition catalog, as well as creating a new dollhouse for the exhibit at ARC Gallery Jan 15-Feb 19, 2022.
Artists Together Charting a Course
/in Inspirations, Recurrent Motifs and Ideas/by Laura AbramsThe first square of this work, “Full Chroma 1” was created for Composing the Future, the 2021 NCWCA Member show…
Art in Public Places
/in Perspective/by Laura AbramsI’ve always been fascinated by art in public places. However, while basking in the art-rich Bay Area, Los Angeles and New York landscapes…
Static Motion and LocoMotion
/in Creative Response to Current Events/by Laura AbramsThese paired works started as an exploration of stillness and dynamism. It wasn’t until afterwards that I realized that both germinated subconsciously as a story of frustration around sheltering in place for a year…
Jazz and Me
/in Personal/by Laura AbramsI was tempted to call this post “Doodlin’ Away,”* because my doodling and improvised jazz have been so intertwined with my life…