Laura Lasworth, Natural & Grafted Branches, 2010, Oil on wood panel, 12 x 12 x 1 in

Laura Lasworth received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Since her first solo show in 1981, she has consistently exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been featured in publications such as Art in America, Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Lasworth was born and raised in Chicago, IL. After many years living in Los Angeles, she relocated to Seattle, Washington, in 2002, where she currently resides.

Laura Lasworth is a painter who's known for her use of sophisticated literary, philosophical, and personal symbolism. In her elaborate cycles of paintings, her method is like a long form writer where each cycle functions as a chapter, from which a continuing narrative emerges. Across the decades, laden trees, stormy skies, lace cloths, and broken branches have become familiar motifs of her personal vocabulary. In her solo shows, viewers encountered imagined interiors, symbolic still-lifes, and various landscapes that feature ever-changing weather patterns over mythical fields where admired persons may make an appearance, or absent fathers and missing children return. Through her art, she aims to provide viewers with a respite in a space that reflects our common humanity, away from the unjust, complex, and complicated world we find ourselves in today.