2004 "Flowers Wallpaper" Abstract Oil Painting by Laura Harrison

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This is just a great original piece. I bought this painting without knowing who the artist was. In doing research, … more This is just a great original piece. I bought this painting without knowing who the artist was. In doing research, I found a Laura Harrison that is an important Contemporary woman filmmaker but I wasnt sure she had ever been a painter. In doing more research, I learned that, in fact this filmmaker was also a painter and had many shows in the early part of this century, including where this one was exhibited at Paul Sharpe Contemporary. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included her biography below. This is really a stunning original painting. Oil on burlap measuring 20 x 20 inches it is a wonderful vibrant view of flowers and stripes, representing a flower wallpaper. Painting is signed and dated in pen on the back stretcher. Also has its original label from the exhibition at the gallery. Painting is unframed. Do your own research on the artist.

For those not familiar with the artist, her biography from the Macdowell Colony reads: " Originally from New Jersey and New York, I now live and work in Chicago. My films focus on marginalized, social outcasts with their own sub cultures. These fringe characters provide a focal point for my concerns with diaspora, post humanism, gender, and the loss of touch in an overwhelmingly visual world. Animation provides a psychic home. A kind of dollhouse in which to problem solve. It is also a practice in empathy. In this internal sense of place I seek a kind of alternative reality for myself through my characters. In re-enacting their dilemmas they (and therefore I) experience beauty and joy. A joy derived from the darkest of darks, juxtaposed with the lightest of lights: What Mike Kelly terms “negative joy.” Formally and narratively I create a space in which the characters can experience life at its most extreme, what interests me most. My films have shown at various festivals internationally including The New York Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, The Chicago Underground Film Festival, Kerry Film Festival, Japan Media Arts Festival, Sene, Boston International Film Festival, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, and others. less