LAUREL FARRIN
I wrestle to balance digital noise with my gravitational presence in the world, to absorb information and glean meaning. – Laurel Farrin, 2022
Laurel Farrin’s work wavers on the threshold between abstraction and recognition–embodied in the slowness of paint and other substances that impose resistances, obstructions, turns and flows. Familiar may become unfamiliar; pathetic may become humorous. Farrin feels that she stumbles into images of her own invention. Abstractions may end up looking like architecture or figures or simple machines- cranks, balances, skids, reactors, extractors.
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ABOUT LAUREL FARRIN
Laurel Farrin is an Associate Professor and head of the painting and drawing department in the School of Art and Art History at the University o Iowa. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; Yaddo, MacDowell, Dora Maar, Pratt Institute Fine Art Summer Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Farrin received an individual artist grant from the Washington, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Exhibitions include Lesley Heller Gallery; NY, NY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; The Bronx River Art Center; The Figge Museum, The Albany International Airport; Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC; the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA; Roswell Museum and Art Center; the Des Moines (Iowa) Art Center; the Florida Center for Contemporary Art in Tampa; Spaces in Cleveland, Ohio; Anton Gallery; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Washington Project for the Arts, in Washington, D.C.
