​Artist Statement: 

Laura Malone abstracted figures and spaces flux and flow between the reverent and the irreverent, humor and awe. Her figures emerge from and melt into the natural world – its primordial vastness and undulating specificity. As if to say, “Come on in, the water’s fine”, they invite us to surrender to nature’s limitless rhythmicality. 

BIO:

Laura Malone is a painter who lives and works in Oakland. Born into a family of artists and academics, she grew up in the desert heat of Tucson, Arizona. The physical and psychic dryness of her environment drove her to create work that is rich and juicy. Color and gesture are the primary components of her technical narrative, while her primary subject matter is feminine subjectivity – exploring what it feels like to be a woman. Investigating themes of friendship, self-relationship, and embodiment, her figures often commune with nature, with one another, and even with the paint itself. Recently, she has returned to more abstract compositions, exploring a renewed interest in materials. These mixed media pieces are painted on sheets of Duralar – a transparent plastic material that allows her to layer several images on separate sheets, onto which she has poured, sprayed, and painted with various media. She experiments with sequences and combinations of imagery until a particular set of sheets feels “right.” Sometimes, the Duralar is placed over colored paper or a digital collage of her oil paintings, resulting in her signature expressive and dynamic qualities.

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