Jennifer Lauer

Jennifer paints from life, from nature, and from the heart, exploring the link between color and emotion. Her favorite subjects are the unexpected color relationships in everyday objects or those that are unique to a particular place or memory. Her work is characterized by strong color and an earnest, searching, and unpolished quality. Jennifer loves to paint while she travels and to create larger studio works from those experiences. In addition to regional painting trips in the Pacific Northwest and the American Southwest, she has worked abroad in places such as France, Italy and most recently Cambodia and Vietnam. While much art today strives for a sense of realism, Jennifer uses reality as a springboard to another place.

Native to the Pacific Northwest, Jennifer resides in Olympia, Washington. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a focus in oil painting from Ohio Wesleyan University, Jennifer went on to attend the University of Puget Sound receiving a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy. Since the spring of 2015 Jennifer has scaled back her work in health care significantly in order to devote herself more fully to painting.

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1999

2018 (February) Light and Color, Solo Exhibition, All Sorts Gallery, Olympia, WA
2018 (1/20-2/24) 10th Annual Washington State Juried Art Competition and Show, Group Exhibition, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA.
2017 (9/30-11/3) Plein Air Washington County, Group Exhibition, Sequoia Gallery and Studios, Hillsboro, OR-- Awarded “Creative Use of Color” by judge Robert Gamblin
Awarded People’s Choice Winner
2015 (9/10-11/15) Invitation to Color, Group Exhibition, Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA
2014 (10/15-11/12) Students of Simon Kogan, Group Exhibition, University Gallery, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA