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Laurel

Richardson

Media:

Painting, Mixed Media

Laurel

Studio Location:

43-01 22nd St, Long Island City, NY 1101

Room/Studio#

424

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Artist Bio:

Laurel Richardson is an interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. She received her MFA degree in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. Her practice integrates painting, installation, and elements of performance. She is an adjunct lecturer at Brooklyn College in the undergraduate and graduate Fine Arts department. She was formerly Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Bard High School Early College, Manhattan. Her recent fellowships include the AIM fellowship at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Recent exhibitions include Echoes of Home at Tafaria Castle, Kenya and Echoes of Home Encore exhibition at Old Stone House, Brooklyn NY.
She is currently exhibiting work at Forms of Connection: The Seventh AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Artist Statement:

My work journeys through thoughts and stories of the past, present, and future. I am charting my family lineage, collective histories, and cultural memory of the African Diaspora while also questioning the visibility, value, and historical representations of bodies of color, particularly Black women. I do this while reflecting on ideas of emergence, power, and resilience.  Through painting, installation, and elements of performance, I produce an interwoven surface of ideas and histories. Using dye, acrylic washes, and oil paint, my work loosely references African American quilting, inspired by my ancestors and West African textiles, including the Ghanaian process of batik.  Through material explorations of hybridity and direct community engagement, the work creates a portal between disparate spaces and speculative futures, where belonging and not belonging must learn to find their way.

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