Laura Barr

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Barr received a BA in Art History from Tufts University and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She also attended Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy.

In additional to painting and drawing, Laura has worked as a graphic designer, which informs her work. In addition to Prince Street Gallery, she is a member of the New Haven Paint & Clay Club, an elected member of Connecticut Women Artists and an associate member of the Lyme Art Association. Her work has been shown in galleries in the Northeast and is in many private collections. She lives in Stony Creek, Connecticut.

My work explores color, transparency, reflection and the material qualities of light. I seek the intersection of representation and abstraction, simplifying form and enhancing color, distilling and embellishing what I observe, while paying close attention to strong and balanced composition. I enjoy the materiality of paint and like to reveal my mark making. I often use scale to illuminate my focus and work in series in order to more fully investigate the engaging variations in particular environments. I am interested in the theme of impermanence; the works often depict blissful, fleeting moments.

Current works in my Ocean Elegy series are visual poems that speak to our declining marine environment due to climate change. They suggest an imagined future in which we are only able to view sea life in aquarium museums that fabricate what we have lost in natural environments. The diptychs suggest both aquarium windows and our use of binocular fusion in perceiving the world. I aim to bring attention to climate change and its effect on the world’s endangered waters through the beauty of the underwater world.

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