Nancy Staub Laughlin

Nancy Staub Laughlin works exclusively in hand-milled pastel chalks, rendering uniquely composed simulated still lifes, creating drawings rich in texture and color. Laughlin has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Moore College of Art, in Philadelphia, PA. She also attended Johnson Atelier Institute of Technical Sculpture in Princeton, New Jersey, and the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. Her pastel drawings emerge from her self- photographed assemblages or "simulated still lifes". These photographs are an important part of the process and are a separate recognized body of work.

For Laughlin, the artistic journey offers an almost limitless exploration of the possibilities of artistic creation, allowing her to enter the unreal world in which she has created. For nearly thirty years, this New Jersey-based artist has pursued this course, incorporating water, light, and color, making the inanimate come alive and bringing the elements together as one. "She thus creates for us a fresh and enchanting world of form and chroma that seem to lurk just beyond the normal eyes's ability to grasp the actual scene and its implications fully. Her magical, fragmented still life and landscape reward us richly with...

Moore College of Art BFA
Johnson Atelier Institute of Technical Sculpture

Solo Exhibitions
2017 Kean University Nancy Dryfoos Gallery
2014_ Noyes Museum, New Jersey
2010 May- October, Johnson and Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ

2009 October, Noho Gallery in Chelsea, New York, NY

2007 January – February, Noho Gallery in Chelsea, New York, NY

2006-07 September- August, State House of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ

2006 April- May, Gallery at Schering-Plough, World Headquarters, Kenilworth, NJ

2004 October, Aqueous Worlds of Wonder, Noho Gallery in Chelsea, New York, NY

2001September, Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY

1997 September, Prudential Corporate Gallery, Newark, NJ

1996 June- August, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

1994 April-May, Princeton University, Bernstein Gallery Princeton, NJ


Group Exhibitions

2013 November- February, Six Alumnae, Moore Galleries, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA

2010 September-October, Six New Jersey Masters, Kean University,Burger Gallery, Union, NJ

2009 January-April, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, National Association of Women in the Arts: Acquisitions 2003-2007 (postponed to future date)

2007 February/March, Still Life, Curated by Ingrid Fox, former Curator, Pfizer Inc., Nicholas F. Rizzo ...