Laura Davis

I strive to paint from my gut a surge of body parts that are both on the fringes of figural and unknowing. At a gaze one can feel as if peeking into a secret message of a sexual ritual. Within the erotic body parts (dominated by females,) I paint for the mystery of lines, color, shapes to convey a climax of thought. The grotesque prevails despite the sensual nature of my paintings, there is the expressive, unsettling, and visceral confirmation that the subject matter of a given work is typically intended to unsettle the viewer while making it their own visual.

2005 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Marymount College of Fordham University

MA, Fordham University, 2004

1979 Art Student League, New York, New York, Life Painting

1976 Pratt Institute, New York, New York, Children’s Book Illustration

1975 Art Studies, Herbert H Lehman College, Bronx, New York

Indianapolis Museum Shop

Artful Hand Gallery, Boston, Mass.

The Silo Gallery, New Milford, Ct.

Gallery Parr, New York, New York

Skynear Gallery, Washington, D.C.

New York Folk Art Museum, N.Y.

Chapel Hill Art Gallery, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Carrack Modern Art, Durham, N.C.

Fine & Folk Art Carolina, Mebane, N.C.

Durham Art Guild, Durham, N.C.