Art of Opportunity
Call it land art, graffiti, urban blight or environmental vandalism. I call it “art of opportunity”…
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Entries by Laura Abrams
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…
Making Meaning, part two
/in Creative Response to Current Events/by Laura AbramsIt’s exhausting even reciting the global, social, and local calamities that have impacted everything that comes with everyday expectations…
Sylvia’s Poem
/in Creative Response to Current Events/by Laura AbramsMy millennial daughter has written this poem and has given me permission to share it…