Laurie Beck Peterson

Laurie Beck Peterson is a commercial photographer and non-silver printmaker living in Philadelphia. She grew up in Rochester, New York and is a graduate of Syracuse University, studying in both The School of Visual and Performing Arts and The Newhouse School. Following a career as an in-house photographer at The Eastman Kodak Company, she opened her own commercial business in Philadelphia, which she currently runs. For the past 14 years, Laurie has also dedicated herself to building several bodies of work in non-silver photography, revolving around the human figure, nature and pinhole images of architecture.



Currently, Laurie teaches non-silver photography at The University of The Arts and runs gum bichromate workshops privately, as well as through The Goggleworks Center For The Arts in Reading, PA. She is a past board member of First Person Arts. Her work is in the collections of The Eastman School of Music, Solutions for Progress, and Valley Green Bank, as well as many private collections. Her work is featured in the soon to be released book Gum Printing, A Step-By-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice, by Christina Z. Anderson, Focal Press.



AFFILIATIONS

The Print Center – Philadelphia, ...

1980 -1984

Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES AND AWARDS

Visible Obscured, Kol Ami Gallery, Elkins Park, PA, 2016

Alchemical Ensemble, Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia College, MO, 2015

Ways of Making, Goggleworks, Reading, PA 2015

Past Imperfect Time, Museum of Contemporary History, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2014

School of Art Faculty Exhibition. University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2014

Philadelphia School Closings Photo Collective, UPenn Graduate Center, Philadelphia, PA 2014

Philadelphia School Closings Photo Collective, Scribe Video, Philadelphia, PA 2013

Infinite Light, Olde City Jewish Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA 2012/2013

Local Alternatives, The Light Room Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2012

Pinhole Featured Photographer, Chris Keeney, San Diego, CA 2012

Palladium over Gold Leaf, High Point, Philadelphia, PA 2011

In My Body Reworks The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA 2011

Recent works in non-silver. High Point, Philadelphia, PA 2009

Bed Umbrella Arts, NY, NY 2009

Ellarslie Open XXVI. The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ 2009

Ellarslie Open XXVI. The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ 2008

Recent Works in Gum Bichromate. High Point, Philadelphia, PA 2008

Places. High Point,...