Laurie Lea

ARTISTS STATEMENT
My work is about the relationship between light and form: how light affects form and form affects light, primarily in visual, psychological and symbolic ways. My forms originated with the single human form and and have evolved over time into simple geometric shapes of circles and rectangles representing the human condition. The light comes from artificial sources and represents not only the invisible reality underlying appearance, but also the spiritual dimension which gives life meaning. This interaction between light and form gives me a way of examining human existence both in the spiritual (invisible, intangible) dimension and in the physical dimension of observable phenomena.

BIO
Laurie Lea was born in Atlanta, Georgia and lived and worked there for the first part of her career. She belonged to the Fay Gold Gallery and exhibited nationally and internationally. ("American Drawings, 1976", Smithsonian Arts Institute, Portsmouth, Virginia, catalogue; and “USA” Portrait of the South”, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy, catalogue). She won numerous awards, such as the 1972 Purchase Award for the Georgia Arts Council. For several years she served on the Fulton County Arts Council in Atlanta, Georgia, initiating and ...

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016
"Shadow of Turning", with Jan Mulder & Apostolis Zolotakis, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Paros, Greece
2014
"Sacred Light: Goldworks", catalogue, Space 38/39, NYC
2006
"City on a Hill", Sculpture Installation, Chashama, NYC
2003
"Beginnings", Tompkins College Center Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA; catalogue
1997
"Light-Worlds", sculpture installation, Walsall Museum & Gallery, Walsall, England; catalogue
1995
"Headlights", Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, England; catalogue
1993
Artist Residency Exhibition @ Artspace, sponsored by Southern Arts, Portsmouth, England; catalogue
1992
"Vessels of the Spirit", Dolgenos, Newnan and Cronin Exhibition Space, NYC
1991
"Immanent Light/Emanant Form", A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
1985
Traveling Exhibition: Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Macon Museum of Arts & Science, Macon, GA; Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1980
Artists Associates Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1976
Artists Associates Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1972
Artists Associates Gallery, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016-17
"Framed" Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015-17
"Small Works Baruch", Sydney Mishkin Gallery,...