Artist Information:
Laura Moriarty
Kingston, NY
United States
Member Since: Dec 2003
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Artist Statement:
My sculptural paintings are a
play on plate tectonics, where
landmasses continually drift
apart and crash together,
piling one episode upon
another in precarious ways.
Geologists know that rocks can
tell stories if you know how
to read them; I apply a
similar principle to painting.
Using the process of making
as a tool for experimentation,
I consider the pure media –
beeswax, tree resin and
pigments - fodder for a
playfully conceptual spin on
ecology, empirical knowledge,
and the concept of time.
Working at the boundary of
painting and sculpture, I
create intricate, imagined
environments made out of the
clustered fragments of
deconstructed paintings. Like
an archaeologist, my practice
exposes what is hidden beneath
the surface. Folded, crumpled
and faulted; these pieces are
signatures of the events that
formed them.
Meant as maquettes of imagined
civilizations in various
states of collapse, my hope is
to offer terrains onto which
viewers can project and
explore and contemplate the
beauty in the breakdown.
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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Scientific Wild Ass Guess.
Kingston Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kingston,
NY, 2008
Shelf Life. No_Space Gallery,
Rosendale, NY, 2005
Gemboree. Collaborative
Concepts, Beacon, NY, 2004
Compressionistic Paintings.
Albany Center Galleries,
Albany, NY, 2004
Painting in the Language of
Geology. Ceres’ Project Room,
New York, NY, 2002
Flatness. Haggerty ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
Luby, Abby; ‘Arts Overview:
Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY New
Paltz’, Roll Magazine, Vol.12,
August 10 – September 10, 2008
‘Globe North best bets; On the
Edge’, The Boston Globe,
Boston, MA, June 5, 2008
Wilson, Beth E. (Interviewer);
‘Portfolio: Laura Moriarty’,
Chronogram Magazine, Luminary
Publishing, NY, May 2008
Snyder, Adam; ‘...
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Collections:
The Progressive Art
Collection, Cleveland, OH
The New York Public Library,
New York, NY
The Royal Museum of Art,
Antwerp, Belgium
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of
Art, New Paltz, NY
The University of Dallas,
Irving, TX
Emory & Henry College, Emory,
VA
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus
Archives, Munich, Germany
The Flemish ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Laura Moriarty's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Laura Moriarty's Portfolio. Browse Moriarty's body of work: My sculptural paintings are a play on plate tectonics, where landmasses continually drift apart and crash together, piling one episode upon another in precarious ways. Geologists know that rocks can tell stories if you know how to read them; I apply a similar principle to painting. Using the process of making as a tool for experimentation, I consider the pure media – beeswax, tree resin and pigments - fodder for a playfully conceptual spin on ecology, empirical knowledge, and the concept of time.
Working at the boundary of painting and sculpture, I create intricate, imagined environments made out of the clustered fragments ... |
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Nobodys Fault, 2007
Encaustic Painting,
19 x 7 X 6 inches
Price: US$ 2000
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Breakaways, 2007
Encaustic Painting,
11 x 9 X 6 inches
Price: US$ 1800
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Scientific Wild Ass Guess, 2008
Encaustic Painting,
58 x 52 X 19 inches
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SWAG detail, 2008
Encaustic Painting,
58 x 54 X 19 inches
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Roads I Know Like the Back of My Hand, 2007
Monoprint,
228 x 24 inches
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Giving Sway, 2007
Encaustic Painting,
17 x 21 X 9 inches
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