"Just for One Day" Painting

www.lauraviapiano.com Laura Viapiano (b. 1981, Buffalo, NY) is an artist based in Western New York. An abstract expressionist, Laura’s oil paintings explore the power of perspective on shaping meaning and experience for the individual. Using plastic squeegees, Laura creates her abstract paintings through a series of loading, pulling, blending and scraping oil paint directly onto and off of the canvas. Paired with linguistically ambiguous titles, her layered color fields blossom into a microcosm of color, texture and language that invite each individual viewer to experience a unique relationship with what is merely paint on a surface. Laura’s work is meant to create an access point for people to enter what mindfulness and meditation often refer to as the observer state, giving viewers an opportunity to notice and examine the lens through which they create a relationship with the painting. Which meaning do they interpret from the title? How does that meaning affect their perception of the colors or textures observed? Is the emotional impact positive or negative? Why? By employing the abstract and the ambiguous in tandem, Laura’s work hopes to highlight the human desire to seek out patterns and create a personal narrative through the interpretation of subtle, learned symbolism. A native of Buffalo, New York, Laura lives and works in Western New York. Her paintings are collected internationally, and can be seen at various galleries & events throughout the US and beyond.