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Laura Newman

1956
(USA) AMERICAN

Laura Newman 是一位美国抽象艺术家。她创作生动、充满活力的画作,展现了手势笔触、硬边几何空间布局与层叠建筑构图之间的和谐平衡。Newman 出生于俄亥俄州克利夫兰,目前居住并工作于纽约布鲁克林。

教育背景

Laura Newman 获得了库珀联盟艺术学院的美术学士学位,并曾在加州艺术学院和新斯科舍艺术与设计学院研究生项目学习。她曾获得约翰·西蒙·古根海姆基金会、美国罗马学院、纽约艺术基金会、Yaddo、麦克道威尔艺术家驻地以及美国艺术与文学学院的奖学金和奖项。自1998年以来,她一直是瓦萨学院艺术系的副教授,曾任教于耶鲁大学艺术学院、布朗大学、新斯科舍艺术与设计学院、普拉特学院和库珀联盟艺术学院。

技法

Newman 在布鲁克林威廉斯堡社区一间充满光线的工作室作画。她的创作包括主要使用油画和丙烯的大型画布作品,以及使用墨水、水彩和其他媒介的小型纸上作品。

她的技法包括染色、倾倒,以及手势与细致标记的结合。谈及她的创作过程,Newman 曾说:“我的画作常以特定地点的独特品质为出发点,但我尝试不带先入之见地接近图像,通过即兴创作发现形态。...

她完成的画作结合了几何空间的界定、短暂的色彩场、动态线条和有机形态,形成了富有氛围感的图像,唤起具象风景的联想,但总是开放于更多、更超越的可能性。

Newman 的画作看似快速完成,因为她重视新鲜感;但实际上它们耗时甚久。艺术家从视觉构思的基本元素开始,不断反复修改,直到她获得一个既熟悉又令她惊喜的图像。

 

灵感

Newman 经常从她工作室窗外的景色中获得灵感,窗外是城市上空一大片天空。开阔的天空与城市景观中建筑的建构与解构交织形成对比。她的作品常探讨建筑环境的限制与开放空间的自由之间的相互作用。窗框元素有时出现在她的画作中,营造空间层次间的距离感。Newman 对具象与抽象之间的互动感兴趣。她追求一种形式、线条、色彩和空间关系的语言,既可形式化和抽象化解读,也可更广泛地理解为虚构的、幻觉般的环境。

艺术家声明

“当我能感受到画中的空间时,画作对我来说才真正活了起来。在我最近的作品中,笔触凝聚成结构,作为空间的容器,并融合了多种形式表现手法,其中包括硬边几何形状、松散的手势干刷墨迹以及建筑元素。对我而言,绘画是发现图像的过程。通过反复创作、叠加和涂抹,我试图定位一个具体但无法命名的地方,它有自己的重力和节奏规则,令我惊喜且熟悉。”

相关引用

Two Coats of Paint 项目创始人 Sharon Butler 于2012年这样评价 Laura Newman:

“Laura Newman 的色彩一直甜美却脆弱……那些看似随意的色彩形状脉动、咬合并悬浮,就像她在威廉斯堡工作室外观察的鸽子……[Newman 的画作]起初令人愉悦,随后故意混淆我们的期待,让我们自行理清视角、神秘形状和叙事暗示。这些画作温柔地提醒我们,事物并非总如表面所见。”

收藏

Laura Newman 的作品被多家机构永久收藏,包括大通曼哈顿银行、IBM 公司、保诚保险公司和亚利桑那大学。

展览

Laura Newman 曾在纽约举办多次个人展览,并参加美国东海岸及加拿大的画廊和博物馆群展。她的作品被广泛报道,包括在《Artforum》、《纽约时报》和《布鲁克林铁轨》等刊物中。

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Education

1981 The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Halifax Graduate Program
1978 The Cooper Union School of Art New York BFA
1977 The California Institute of the Arts Valencia California

Solo Exhibitions

2017 University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut
2012 Laura Newman Recent Paintings Jen Bekman Gallery New York
2011 Air 1 GAP Gallery Brooklyn New York
2010 Glass Walls and Billboards Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Halifax
2007 Lesley Heller Gallery New York
2004 Skies and Highways Randolph-Macon College Ashland Virginia
2002 Bellwether Gallery New York
1996 Tenri Gallery New York
1987-89 Victoria Munroe Gallery New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Laura Newman and Marcy Rosenblat 490 Atlantic Gallery Brooklyn May
2016 Machines of Paint and Other Materials 72 Front Street Brooklyn
2016 Conference of the Birds Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC New York
2016 Surface Two Arena Brooklyn New York
2016 Inside Out Art 101 Brooklyn New York
2015 Working in NYC Central Connecticut University New Britain Connecticut
2015 Paperazzi 3 Janet Kurnatowski Gallery Brooklyn New York
2014 My Big Fat Painting Brian Morris Gallery New York
2014 Clouds Lesley Heller Workspace New York
2013 Rockslide Sky Fordham University at Lincoln Center New York
2012 What’s the Point Jen Bekman Gallery New York
2012 Charles Hagen Photographs Laura Newman Paintings Carol Shen Gallery Packer Collegiate Institute Brooklyn New York
2011 Little Languages/Coded Pictures Lesley Heller Fine Art New York
2010 Rhyme not Reason curated by John Yau Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
2009 Mary Carlson and Laura Newman Big Small/Casual Gallery Long Island City
2008 The 183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art The National Academy of Design New York
2006 Air Monya Rowe Gallery New York
2002 Art on Paper The Weatherspoon Art Museum Greensboro North Carolina
1998 Current Undercurrent The Brooklyn Museum New York
1997 Dreams and Dislocations Elizabeth Harris Gallery New York
1995 Temporarily Possessed The New Museum New York
1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters New York
1984 New Work The New Museum New York

Publications

2017 The Drawer Revue de Dessin Volume 12 Untitled March selected by Barbara Soyer
2016 Machines of Paint Art Critical link
2015 No Shape Bends The River So Long Monica Berlin and Beth Marzoni cover
2014 Art Critical My Big Fat Painting link
2012 Rockslide Sky an exhibition inspired by Roberto Bolaño’s story Gomez Palacio catalog curated by Carleen Sheehan
2012 Bloom 20 x 200 Editions Digital Print Edition
2012 Rorschach 20 x 200 Editions Digital Print Edition
2012 Sharon Butler Two Coats of Paint October 2 link
2011 Laura Newman interviewed by Emily Auchincloss NYArts Magazine October
2010 Amy Sillman “Never Trust a Laura Newman Vertical” Artcritical.com September 9 Revised essay
2010 Laura Newman Glass Walls and Billboards catalog Essays by Amy Sillman and John Yau NSCAD University Halifax
2008 The National Academy Museum The 183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art catalog
2007 Stephanie Buhmann exhibition review The Brooklyn Rail October
2004 Laura Newman Skies and Highways catalog Randolph-Macon College Ashland Virginia
2002 Martha Schwendener Artforum Magazine Summer Exhibition Review
2002 Judith Linhares "Laura Newman" Bomb Magazine Spring
1996 Roberta Smith The New York Times June 21

Fellowships and Residencies

2017 2015 The American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist Residency
2015 Yaddo Residency
2014 American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist Residency
2002-2016 Vassar College Faculty Research Award
2010 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University Residency Halifax
1996 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship Painting
1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award
1985 Yaddo Residency
1985 MacDowell Colony Residency
1981 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting
1980 Rome Prize Fellowship in Painting The American Academy in Rome

Selected Collections

Chase Manhattan Bank
IBM Corporation
Neuberger and Berman
The New Museum Impermanent Collection
Prudential Insurance Company
The University of Arizona

Teaching

1998 - present Associate Professor Vassar College Poughkeepsie New York
1998 - 1999 Visiting Assistant Professor Brown University Providence Rhode Island
1993 - 1997 Assistant Professor Yale University School of Art New Haven Connecticut
1990 - 1993 The Cooper Union School of Art New York
1989 - 1990 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Halifax Nova Scotia

Other Professional Activities

2016 University of Connecticut studio visit MFA program
2016 School of Visual Arts studio visit MFA program
2015 Gallery Conversation Scale from the Artist's and Curator's Viewpoint Public conversation with curator Mary-Kay Lombino The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College
2015 Art Talks Stars and Personage Juan Miro online video
2014 Maryland Institute College of Art Hoffberger School of Painting Baltimore Visiting Artist
2013 Knox University Galesburg Visiting Artist and Juror Al Young Contest
2010 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University Halifax studio visit
2012 The Pasadena Museum of California Art CA studio visit
2011 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University Halifax lecture
2010 California State University at Long Beach studio visit
2010 Princeton University studio visit
2009 Pratt Institute MFA program studio visit
2008 The Whitney Museum of Art Education Program studio visit
2008 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University studio visit
2007 Lesley Heller Gallery NYC lecture