Laurey Bennett-Levy

Artist Statement

As an only child raised by my single mother, coupled with a lineage of of generational depression, my social skills developed slowly and awkwardly. I spent my formative years alone in my room on my red bean bag chair with markers and sketchbooks. I fused myself to large families and invited myself to their dinners to better understand what it felt like to belong.

Even with decades of raising my own family and cultivating a community, I am still in pursuit of repairing and transforming my feelings of isolation and have recently understood, ironically, that I am far from alone.

To soothe these emotions, I wander in urban cities photographing architectural grids created by unrecognized artisans which become the physical foundation of my work. The accumulation of these images becomes a memento of my emotional experience.

Eventually this documentation takes on new life as I reduce and redefine ordinary markers of existence as I explore possibilities through various mediums and processes. This series aptly named, “MITER”, is a union formed between two edges that meet at an intersection.

The repetitive insignias you see throughout my work are objects we often pass over, and provoke us to rediscover the unnoticed a...

I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at S.U.N.Y Albany, New York, where I studied painting and graphic design.

Brooklyn, 2024 May 16-19