Shards. 2010, 56 x 72″, oil on canvas
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Highbeams, 2010, 32 x 42″, oil on canvas
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Winter Scene, 2009, 64 x 52″, oil on canvas
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Jello Combat, 2010, 56 x 72″, acrylic on canvas
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Pavilion, 2009, 52 x 6″oil on canvas
Artist’s Statement
I am interested in a kind of space that is fresh, airy, vast and open. For a long time, I’ve felt that a painting is alive when I can feel the space in it. I would like to be able to paint air, but in order to paint air I need to paint the things in it.
I aim to locate the point where form takes on meaning—where a triangle can be read as a road in perspective, for example. Each painting suggests a model or diagram, even as it evokes a particular, fictional place.
Website
lauranewman.com
I love these paintings
winter scene-great visual acrobatics without being showy. A wondrous painting.
i’m thinking a lot about your forms and how i read them in the space – they are heady and surprising one to the next – color and light so eventful, yet the continuing space alluded to lets me think on. wonderful work.