Laurie Victor Kay

Laurie Victor Kay invites the viewer to escape through her work. Her visual language creates a psychological entrance into idealized and unique spaces. Influenced by her background in painting, she injects super-real hues and re-imagines places following a mathematical rhythm and perfectionist eye. Digitally manipulating the image allows her to construct energized spaces. The images photographed in-camera are simply a preface and function as the architecture for Laurie’s finalized works. Her work confronts conceptual opposites-
dark subways are juxtaposed against saturated color and lightness, and symmetry is found in chaos. Laurie’s large-scale photographs are inspired by travel where she continually discovers poetic beauty in unexpected places. Her reimagined mathematically influenced works provoke exploration of the psychology of space, allowing for open interpretation and referencing perfectionism.

LVK studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and photography at Columbia College Chicago, where she received her BFA in 1995. In 1996 she started her artistic collaboration with artist Charles Kay Jr as Laurie and Charles. Their photography of people and places all over the world includes a prestigiou...

School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Painting and drawing 1992. Columbia College Chicago B.F.A. photography 1995.

2021 March Why Photography. Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2021 February. The Gratitude Project. 14 unique videos with work by Laurie Victor Kay mapped on the University of Nebraska Medical Center
2020 Buffett Cancer Center-Omaha, NE Community+Healing Group Show
2019 Buffett Cancer Center -Commission-5 large works
2019 Bemis Art Auction Group Show
2019 Anne Loucks Gallery Group Show
2018 Women's Center For Advancement, Omaha, Commission of 5 large works of survivors of abuse
2016 4 World Trade Center, NYC Installation of three large works
2016 Lauritzen Outpatient Surgery Center-UNMC Installation of 15 site specific large works based on Orthopaedic medicine and Kaleidoscope series
2016 The Scarf Project, Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company creates three limited edition designs for LVK
2015 Through the Lens Artfully photography and text by LVK on the Venice Biennale for INTERIORS magazine
2010 Art Chicago
2008: International Exhibition at The Center for Fine Art Photography; Fort Collins, Colorado.
2008: Pieces of Paris at Gilman Contemporary; Ketchum, Idaho. August 2007: Building a Legacy at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Omaha, Nebraska
May 2007: Group Exhibition at Gilman Contemporary; Ketchum, Idaho.
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