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Laura Cooper Elm Mediums: Ceramics, Painting, Digital Media LCE Fine Art Studio Studio address: 822 whiterock avenue Crested Butte PO Box 3208 Crested Butte, CO 81224 970-209-8085 email: laura@lcelm.com Website: www.LCElm.com Spending over 12 years of her adult life in the central pacific in Micronesia lends a certain detached viewpoint yet has distinctly intensified the clarity of her vision. The Rocky Mountains where she now resides are the complete antithesis of her previous environment except for the mystical quietude of wilderness and the beautiful sky. Elm received a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA in 1980 with a major in painting. Formal studies in illustration and ceramics as well as an extensive knowledge of art history, mythology and ancient culture provide the foundation and the technical ability to realize her concepts. In depth studies of literature and psychology have led to a definite philosophical bent while a silly sense of humor provides a lighthearted touch. Raised in a tiny hamlet just north of New York City, some of the artist's most precious hours were spent gazing at the Unicorn tapestries in the Cloisters. By age nine she was painting still-lifes in oil. Painting remains her primary emphasis. As a painter, ceramist and sculptor, this artist's prolific body of work takes a pluralistic approach which skirts the edges of realism, abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism. The myriad interconnections are best understood as a visual language. Combining precise detail with color, style and balance, direct observations are transformed to reflect the essence and soul of the subject. Intensity of color and imagery summoned by the evening sky and the lush darkness of night hallmark recent works. Many of these images represent guardians of the soul, protectors of dreams or keepers of cosmic time. Inspiration comes from travel abroad and a kaleidoscope of interests. As poet-painter-philosopher it is the artist's passionate quest to blend the worlds of reason and imagination. SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2001 From Here to Eternity: Skyscapes from Colorado & Micronesia Gunnison Center for the Arts Gunnison, CO 2000 The Whole Night Sky Johnson Building Gallery Gunnison, CO 1999 Color of Night Piper Gallery Center for the Arts Crested Butte, CO 1995 The Annex Show Kwajalein Art Guild RMI 1988 New Work Kwajalein Art Guild RMI 1986 New Work Kwajalein Art Guild RMI GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2002 ACC Craft Show Chicago, IL 2001 Cameos Piper Gallery Center for the Arts Crested Butte, CO 2000 Women's Work Gallery Connections Hotchkiss, CO 2000 Wildflower Festival Art Exhibit Piper Gallery Center for the Arts Crested Butte, CO 2000 Selected Works Rendez Vous Gallery Crested Butte, CO 1999 The Wild Life Gallery Connections Hotchkiss, CO 1999 Dragon Drawings Johnson Building Gallery Gunnison, CO 1999 Valley Artists Show Piper Gallery Center for the Arts Crested Butte, CO 1997 Café D'art Kwajalein Art Guild RMI 1989 KAG Group Exhibit Kwajalein Art Guild Republic of the Marshall Islands 1987 Small Sculpture Nohea Gallery Honolulu, HI 1982 Night Dreams & Natures Nuances Everett Arts Council Everett, WA TIMELINE Intern 1973 Hudson River Museum Yonkers, NY Graduated 1976 Hastings High School Hastings-on-Hudson, NY Graphic Artist 1977 Morgan Printing Dobbs Ferry, NY Intern 1979-80 Graphic Arts Technical Foundation Pittsburgh, PA Graduated 1980 Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Graphic Artist 1980 Loveland, Colorado Graphic Artist 1983 Marysville, Washington Technical Illustrator 1985 GTE Kwajalein, Republic of the Marshall Islands Partner/Designer 1986-88 Looking Glass Graphics Custom Silk Screening KRMI President 1987-91 Kwajalein Art Guild Republic of the Marshall Islands Instructor 1986-96 Community Adult Education Program Kwajalein, KRMI Studio Artist 1998-present LCE Fine Arts Studio Crested Butte, Colorado Artists of the West Elks featuring Crested Butte and Gunnison Colorado area art and artists |
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