Painting
Minneapolis, MN
August 2009, 4 weeks
In recent paintings, Laura Andrews experimented with doubling or tripling landscapes, making strange bedfellows of different places and subjects. Some of the paintings also imply a human presence engaged in conquering or experiencing natural spaces and forces such as gravity or night. She would like to continue this line of inquiry and intensify it, or multiple layers of place in one picture plane.
She used her residency to work on a series of 6-8 paintings that focus on the fiction of landscape, layering people, fantasy places, and manipulation of linear perspectives and depth cues as markers of space. Part of her exploration was color: using color symbolically, illogically, and sensuously. She worked from drawings and paintings done on site and from reinterpreted source material, integrating the two together. Her goal was to combine the stability of a painted place through color and perspective. She wanted to include the viewer in the process of deciphering and thereby exploring these painted places.