Artist Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty - Artist Statement

My sculptural paintings are a play on plate tectonics, where landmasses continually drift apart and crash together, piling one episode upon another in precarious ways. Geologists know that rocks can tell stories if you know how to read them; I apply a similar principle to painting. Using the process of making as a tool for experimentation, I consider the pure medium fodder for a playfully conceptual spin on scientific knowledge, natural phenomena, and the passing of time. .

My work has evolved into a kind of forensic study, or faux-archaeology. I think about these paintings as environments, communities or civilizations on the brink of collapse. Using encaustic paint as my medium, I brush on layers of color, and then free the painting from its support by scraping, compressing, rolling and cutting the pigmented beeswax in various ways. I then reassemble the painting, creating complex, organic clusters that are a meditation on the way the earth operates.

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Education

Apprenticeship in HandPapermaking, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

Exhibitions

Solo:

2005 Shelf Life- No_Space Gallery, Rosendale, NY
2004 Gemboree- Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
2002 Field Notes in the Margins of Eras. Ceres’ Project Room at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2002 Flatness. Haggerty Art Gallery, The University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2001 Going through Phases. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Loaded Topics. Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
1996 Manual Labor. Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY
1992 Laura Moriarty. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

Group:

2006-07 Natural Selection. The Art & Culture Program at Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
2006 Aldrich Under Cover. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2006 Song of the Earth. Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY
2006 Another place. Curated by Eleanor Eichenbaum, NurtureArt @ Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY
2006 WaxWorks. Co-curated by Helen Klisser During and Nash Hyon, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2006 Cowgirls of the Hudson River Valley. Curated by Richard Timperio, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY
2006 New ’06: Nurturing the Edge. CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
2006 Reading Objects. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2005 Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeast New York. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
2005 Encaustic Works 2005. Co-Curated by Dr. Karl Emil Willers and Beth E. Wilson, Samuel Dorsky
Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2005 Artistic Fragments: Art 2005. Curated by Benny Andrews, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2005 B5: Five artists from Beacon. Curated by Carol March, Kleinert/James Art Center at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2005 Nature: Investigations of Energy, Repetition and Ideas. Curated by Fawn Potash and Lorrie Fredette, The Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery, Hunter, NY
2005 This is not an archive. Curated by Anna Gray, Mariangela Mendez and Montserrat Albores, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale, NY
2004 New Hudson New York. Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Shelters: The Byrdcliffe Outdoor Exhibition 2004. Curated by Jonah Meyer, Byrdcliffe ArtsColony, Woodstock, NY
2003 Unearthed. The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Kingston Sculpture Biennial. Curated by Judy Pfaff, Millen’s Steel Building, Kingston, NY Frequencies. Curated by Donise English, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2003 Night of 1,000 Drawings. Artists’ Space, New York, NY
2002 Curator’s Choice. Curated by Kim Foster, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Masereel: Twenty years of printmaking at the Frans Masereel Centre, Belgium. Curated by Veerle Rooms, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, U.K.2001
2002 Breaking the Rules: Art 2001. Curated by Eugenie Tsai, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2002 New Prints 2001 – Summer. International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2002 Images in Wax: Contemporary Encaustic. Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH
2000 Prints 2000. Fisher Art Center at Bard College, Annandale, NY
2000 Paperworks. Curated by Harry Philbrick, Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT
2000 Small Works/Big Windows. Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1999 Directions in Contemporary Printmaking. Curated by Suzanne Woods, Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, WI
1999 Intersection: Mariana Depetris & Laura Moriarty. Roswell Visual Art Center, Roswell, GA
1999 The Print Center’s 73rd Annual International Competition. Curated by Jan Howard, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Pressure: A Group Show of Recent Print Work. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY
1998 Awkwardology. Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA
1996 The Art Exchange Show. Curated by Sarah Meltzer for Gallery 4C, the New York Mercantile Exchange, New York, NY
1996 Material Studies. Curated by Austin Thomas, Gallery 4C, New York, NY
1995 Working Affinities. Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1995 Commissioned Installations: Four Artists from Women’s Studio Workshop. Curated by Elizabeth Licata, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY
1994 WSW XX: A Retrospective. Curated by Tatana Kellner, Chandler Gallery, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY

Grants & Awards

2005 Radius Professional Practice Series for Artists, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunities Stipend, (5x)
2002 Artists Talk on Art Curator’s Choice Competition Winner, New York, NY
2001 Exhibition Award, “Breaking the Rules: Art 2001”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2000 Craft Alliance of New York State Career Development Grant, Syracuse, NY
1999 Exhibition Award, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY
1995 New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant with the Historic D & H Canal Museum, High Falls, NY
1990 Artists’ Space Independent Project Grant, New York, NY

Residencies

2004-05 Artist in Residence, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
2004 Frans Masereel Center Artist in Residence, Kasterlee, Belgium
2002 Matrix Visiting Artist, Printmaking Department, the University of Dallas, TX
2000 Frans Masereel Center Artist in Residence, Kasterlee, Belgium
1999 International Exchange Fellowship, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany,Sponsored by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1999 Geraldine R. Dodge Artist in Residence, the Printmaking Council of New Jersey
1998 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Sweet Briar, VA
1996 Ucross Foundation Residency, Clearmont, WY

Publications

2006 Wilson, Beth E.; ‘No Kidding!’ Chronogram Magazine, New Paltz, NY.
2005 Philbrick, Harry; ‘Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern NewYork’. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT.
2005 Smart, Paul; ‘Foresighted Fossils: Laura Moriarty’s encaustic art plays with plate tectonics as metaphor’, 200 Proof Magazine, Albany, NY, Issue #4.
2005 Lombardi, Dominick; ‘Unbound’. The New York Times.
2004 Brickman, David; ‘Laura Moriarty: Compressionistic Paintings’. Metroland, Albany, NY.
2004 Wilson, Beth E.; ‘Philosopher’s Walks’. Chronogram Magazine, New Paltz, NY.
2004 Smart, Paul; ‘A Beacon for artists’. Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY.
2003 Rice, Robin; ‘Down to Earth’. Citypaper, Philadelphia, PA.
2003 Edwards, Nicole; ‘Frequencies’ Marist exhibit explores repetition. Cover story, Enjoy! Entertainment Guide/Poughkeepsie Journal,.Poughkeepsie, NY.
2002 NYArts Online, 450 Broadway Gallery: ATOA Exhibit, November
2002 Smart, Paul; Balancing commentary with aesthetics. Art/Alm@nac, Woodstock, NY.
2001 Mitchell, Annette; Images In Wax: Contemporary Encaustic. Art New England, October/November.
2001 Lombardi, D. Dominick; Exploring the Gamut of Contemporary Art, The New York Times.
2001 Smart, Paul; Art without boundaries, The Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY.
2000 Wilson, Beth Elaine; The Truth in Materials, Chronogram Magazine, New Paltz, NY.
1999 Hirsch, Claudia; Natur Sind Zivilisations-Studien, Mittlebayerische, Bavaria, Germany.
1999 Bellantoni, Ralph; Printmaker is a hands-on artist, The Courier News, Princeton, NJ.
1999 Spero, Bette; Lost Arts, The Star-Ledger, New Brunswick, NJ.
1998 Rice, Robin; Hudson Valley Artists Review: Laura Moriarty, The Binnewater Tides, Fall.
1998 Gardner, Wendy; Moriarty’s ‘Aerial View’ Evokes Longings for Times Past, Tribeca Trib, NY, NY.
1998 Gehman, Geoff; ‘Awkwardology humorous and uncomfortable, The Morning Call, Allentown, PA.
1998 Norklun, Kathi; Shards & shreds of memory, The Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY.
1994 Rice, Robin; WSW XX Years: A Retrospective, New Art Examiner,Chicago, IL, 10/94, and Hand Papermaking Magazine, Baltimore, MD.

Catalogs

2005 Encaustic Works 2005, (Group exhibition) Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz. Includes essay, ‘Contemporary Encaustic in the Hudson Valley’ by co-curator, Beth E. Wilson.
2003 The Liquid Language of Artist’s Books. (Group exhibition) The University of Wyoming Art Museums’ American Heritage Center, Laramie, WY. Essay by co- curator, Karen Kunc
2003 Kingston Sculpture Biennial 5. (Group exhibition) Millen’s Steel Building, Kingston, NY. Published by the Art Society of Kingston. Introduction by curator, Judy Pfaff, forward by David Levi Strauss.
2003 The Print Center’s 73rd Annual International Competition. Curated by Jan Howard, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Manual Labor. (Solo exhibition) TSL Warehouse, Hudson, NY. Excerpted essay by L. Robin Rice.

Books

2001 The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax. By Joanne Mattera, Published by Watson-Guptil, New York, NY. Illustrated
2000 New American Paintings. Number 26:Northeast Edition,
Selected by Terrie Sultan, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA. Illustrated
1997 The Best of Printmaking: An International Collection. Selected by Lynne Allen and Phyllis McGibbon,
Rockport Publishing, Gloucester, MA. Illustrated



	Laura Moriarty - Artist Statement My sculptural paintings are a play on plate tectonics, where landmasses continually drift apart and crash together, piling one episode upon another in precarious ways. Geologists know that rocks can tell stories if you know how to read them; I apply a similar principle to painting. Using the process of making as a tool for experimentation, I consider the pure medium fodder for a playfully conceptual spin on scientific knowledge, natural phenomena, and the passing of time. . My work has evolved into a kind of forensic study, or faux-archaeology. I think about these paintings as environments, communities or civilizations on the brink of collapse. Using encaustic paint as my medium, I brush on layers of color, and then free the painting from its support by scraping, compressing, rolling and cutting the pigmented beeswax in various ways. I then reassemble the painting, creating complex, organic clusters that are a meditation on the way the earth operates. Resume Education Apprenticeship in HandPapermaking, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY Exhibitions Solo: 2005 Shelf Life- No_Space Gallery, Rosendale, NY 2004 Gemboree- Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY 2002 Field Notes in the Margins of Eras. Ceres’ Project Room at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY 2002 Flatness. Haggerty Art Gallery, The University of Dallas, Irving, TX 2001 Going through Phases. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Loaded Topics. Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany 1996 Manual Labor. Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY 1992 Laura Moriarty. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY Group: 2006-07 Natural Selection. The Art & Culture Program at Albany International Airport, Albany, NY 2006 Aldrich Under Cover. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT 2006 Song of the Earth. Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY 2006 Another place. Curated by Eleanor Eichenbaum, NurtureArt @ Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY 2006 WaxWorks. Co-curated by Helen Klisser During and Nash Hyon, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT 2006 Cowgirls of the Hudson River Valley. Curated by Richard Timperio, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY 2006 New ’06: Nurturing the Edge. CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY 2006 Reading Objects. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY 2005 Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeast New York. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT 2005 Encaustic Works 2005. Co-Curated by Dr. Karl Emil Willers and Beth E. Wilson, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY 2005 Artistic Fragments: Art 2005. Curated by Benny Andrews, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 2005 B5: Five artists from Beacon. Curated by Carol March, Kleinert/James Art Center at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY 2005 Nature: Investigations of Energy, Repetition and Ideas. Curated by Fawn Potash and Lorrie Fredette, The Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery, Hunter, NY 2005 This is not an archive. Curated by Anna Gray, Mariangela Mendez and Montserrat Albores, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale, NY 2004 New Hudson New York. Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Shelters: The Byrdcliffe Outdoor Exhibition 2004. Curated by Jonah Meyer, Byrdcliffe ArtsColony, Woodstock, NY 2003 Unearthed. The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA 2003 Kingston Sculpture Biennial. Curated by Judy Pfaff, Millen’s Steel Building, Kingston, NY Frequencies. Curated by Donise English, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY 2003 Night of 1,000 Drawings. Artists’ Space, New York, NY 2002 Curator’s Choice. Curated by Kim Foster, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Masereel: Twenty years of printmaking at the Frans Masereel Centre, Belgium. Curated by Veerle Rooms, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, U.K.2001 2002 Breaking the Rules: Art 2001. Curated by Eugenie Tsai, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 2002 New Prints 2001 – Summer. International Print Center New York, New York, NY 2002 Images in Wax: Contemporary Encaustic. Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH 2000 Prints 2000. Fisher Art Center at Bard College, Annandale, NY 2000 Paperworks. Curated by Harry Philbrick, Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT 2000 Small Works/Big Windows. Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1999 Directions in Contemporary Printmaking. Curated by Suzanne Woods, Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, WI 1999 Intersection: Mariana Depetris & Laura Moriarty. Roswell Visual Art Center, Roswell, GA 1999 The Print Center’s 73rd Annual International Competition. Curated by Jan Howard, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA 1998 Pressure: A Group Show of Recent Print Work. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY 1998 Awkwardology. Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA 1996 The Art Exchange Show. Curated by Sarah Meltzer for Gallery 4C, the New York Mercantile Exchange, New York, NY 1996 Material Studies. Curated by Austin Thomas, Gallery 4C, New York, NY 1995 Working Affinities. Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY 1995 Commissioned Installations: Four Artists from Women’s Studio Workshop. Curated by Elizabeth Licata, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY 1994 WSW XX: A Retrospective. Curated by Tatana Kellner, Chandler Gallery, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY Grants & Awards 2005 Radius Professional Practice Series for Artists, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunities Stipend, (5x) 2002 Artists Talk on Art Curator’s Choice Competition Winner, New York, NY 2001 Exhibition Award, “Breaking the Rules: Art 2001”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 2000 Craft Alliance of New York State Career Development Grant, Syracuse, NY 1999 Exhibition Award, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA 1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY 1995 New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant with the Historic D & H Canal Museum, High Falls, NY 1990 Artists’ Space Independent Project Grant, New York, NY Residencies 2004-05 Artist in Residence, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY 2004 Frans Masereel Center Artist in Residence, Kasterlee, Belgium 2002 Matrix Visiting Artist, Printmaking Department, the University of Dallas, TX 2000 Frans Masereel Center Artist in Residence, Kasterlee, Belgium 1999 International Exchange Fellowship, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany,Sponsored by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 1999 Geraldine R. Dodge Artist in Residence, the Printmaking Council of New Jersey 1998 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Sweet Briar, VA 1996 Ucross Foundation Residency, Clearmont, WY Publications 2006 Wilson, Beth E.; ‘No Kidding!’ Chronogram Magazine, New Paltz, NY. 2005 Philbrick, Harry; ‘Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern NewYork’. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT. 2005 Smart, Paul; ‘Foresighted Fossils: Laura Moriarty’s encaustic art plays with plate tectonics as metaphor’, 200 Proof Magazine, Albany, NY, Issue #4. 2005 Lombardi, Dominick; ‘Unbound’. The New York Times. 2004 Brickman, David; ‘Laura Moriarty: Compressionistic Paintings’. Metroland, Albany, NY. 2004 Wilson, Beth E.; ‘Philosopher’s Walks’. Chronogram Magazine, New Paltz, NY. 2004 Smart, Paul; ‘A Beacon for artists’. Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY. 2003 Rice, Robin; ‘Down to Earth’. Citypaper, Philadelphia, PA. 2003 Edwards, Nicole; ‘Frequencies’ Marist exhibit explores repetition. Cover story, Enjoy! Entertainment Guide/Poughkeepsie Journal,.Poughkeepsie, NY. 2002 NYArts Online, 450 Broadway Gallery: ATOA Exhibit, November 2002 Smart, Paul; Balancing commentary with aesthetics. Art/Alm@nac, Woodstock, NY. 2001 Mitchell, Annette; Images In Wax: Contemporary Encaustic. Art New England, October/November. 2001 Lombardi, D. Dominick; Exploring the Gamut of Contemporary Art, The New York Times. 2001 Smart, Paul; Art without boundaries, The Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY. 2000 Wilson, Beth Elaine; The Truth in Materials, Chronogram Magazine, New Paltz, NY. 1999 Hirsch, Claudia; Natur Sind Zivilisations-Studien, Mittlebayerische, Bavaria, Germany. 1999 Bellantoni, Ralph; Printmaker is a hands-on artist, The Courier News, Princeton, NJ. 1999 Spero, Bette; Lost Arts, The Star-Ledger, New Brunswick, NJ. 1998 Rice, Robin; Hudson Valley Artists Review: Laura Moriarty, The Binnewater Tides, Fall. 1998 Gardner, Wendy; Moriarty’s ‘Aerial View’ Evokes Longings for Times Past, Tribeca Trib, NY, NY. 1998 Gehman, Geoff; ‘Awkwardology humorous and uncomfortable, The Morning Call, Allentown, PA. 1998 Norklun, Kathi; Shards & shreds of memory, The Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY. 1994 Rice, Robin; WSW XX Years: A Retrospective, New Art Examiner,Chicago, IL, 10/94, and Hand Papermaking Magazine, Baltimore, MD. Catalogs 2005 Encaustic Works 2005, (Group exhibition) Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz. Includes essay, ‘Contemporary Encaustic in the Hudson Valley’ by co-curator, Beth E. Wilson. 2003 The Liquid Language of Artist’s Books. (Group exhibition) The University of Wyoming Art Museums’ American Heritage Center, Laramie, WY. Essay by co- curator, Karen Kunc 2003 Kingston Sculpture Biennial 5. (Group exhibition) Millen’s Steel Building, Kingston, NY. Published by the Art Society of Kingston. Introduction by curator, Judy Pfaff, forward by David Levi Strauss. 2003 The Print Center’s 73rd Annual International Competition. Curated by Jan Howard, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA 1996 Manual Labor. (Solo exhibition) TSL Warehouse, Hudson, NY. Excerpted essay by L. Robin Rice. Books 2001 The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax. By Joanne Mattera, Published by Watson-Guptil, New York, NY. Illustrated 2000 New American Paintings. Number 26:Northeast Edition, Selected by Terrie Sultan, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA. Illustrated 1997 The Best of Printmaking: An International Collection. Selected by Lynne Allen and Phyllis McGibbon, Rockport Publishing, Gloucester, MA. Illustrated





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