Laura at exhibition

Solo Exhibitions
  2010 The Western Wall, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica CA
  2009 The Western Wall, SPAC Gallery, Seattle WA
  2005 The Gray, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  2001 Loves’s Lyric, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  2000 The Habit of Being: A Portrait of Miss Mystery and Manners, Blackbridge Hall Gallery, Georgia College& State U., Milledgeville, GA
  1997 The Habit of Being: A Portrait of Miss Mystery and Manners, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1994 New Paintings, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1989 Paintings, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  1987 New Work, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  1985 Paintings & Drawings, Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
  1984 Personal Narratives, Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
  1981 Family Secrets, LAICA, Los Angeles, CA
     
Selected Group Exhibitions
  2012 Small Works, Lora Schlesinger Gallery
  2012 Prophets!, St. James Cathedral Chapel, Seattle, WA
  2011 The Artist’s Daughter (tribute exhibition to Artist, George Tooker), North Park University Gallery Chicago IL
  2010 U.P. Drawing 2010: Contemporary Drawing, Art Faire on the Internet
http://www.be-art-website.com/index.php?in=10154
  2009 Self Absorbed: An Exhibition of Contemporary Self Portraiture, SPAC Gallery, Seattle WA
  2007 Hope: Open/Close, SPAC Gallery, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
  2007 The Luck of the Draw, Lora Schlesinger, Santa Monica CA
  2007 The S Word, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, CA
  2007 Eclectic Vision, The Archer School Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  2006 The S Word, Judson Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  2006 Likeness, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  2005 Passion/Passover: Artists of Faith Interpret Their Holy Days, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  2005 Drawing Studies & Painting, The Judson Gallery, Pasadena, CA
  2004 Drawings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica CA
  2004 Faculty Show, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle WA
  2004 Bodily Notions, Glendale College, Glendale CA
  2003 LA Post Cool, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles CA
  2003 LA Post Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
  2002 Faculty Show, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
  2001 Representing LA, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Occidental College
  2001 The Importance of Being Ernest, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Micheal Duncan
  2001 The Artist & the Bible: 20th Century Works on Paper, Hurst Art Gallery, Moraga, CA
  2001 Representing LA, South Texas Institute of Art, Corpus Christie, TX
  2000 Representing LA, Frye Art Museum Seattle, WA
  2000 The Changing Face of Portraiture, Chapman University, Orange, CA
  1999 Marks and Beyond, Mount San Antonio College, CA
  1998 Group Show, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
  1998 Transfiguration, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1996 Seeking Balance, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
  1996 Still Life, Still Here, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1996 Burning Lights, Hearst Art Gallery, Moraga, CA
  1995 Burning Lights, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
  1995 The Ladies of Tortue, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
  1995 Burning Lights, Biola University, La Mirada, CA
  1994 The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  1994 Burning Lights, LaBand Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
  1994 Sacred and Profane, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  1994 Fiction, Parnas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1994 Serious Beauty, Stuart Katz Loft, Laguna Beach, CA
  1993 Light and Space, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1993 Appraising the Preternatural, Patricia Shea, Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1992  Personal Mythsologies, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1992 The Spiritual Landscape, Biota Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  1989 Group Show, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
  1989 Art Against Aids, Murray Feldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  1988 Group Show, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston TX
  1988 Alumni Show, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
  1987 Miracles and Mysteries, Cal State Dominguez Hills, CA
  1987 Faculty Show, Cal State University, Northridge, CA
  1986 Group Show, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, (organized by Tom Solomon)
  1986 Fantastic Vision, Simard Halm Gallery,  Los Angeles, CA
  1986 Art on Film, Downey Museum, Downey, CA
  1986 Faculty Show, Cal State University, Northridge, CA
  1984 Interiors/Exteriors, Gensler & Ass., Los Angeles, CA
  1984 Crime & Punishment, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
  1983 Painting of the Month, LAICA, Los Angeles, CA (selected by Betty Asher)
  1982 Group Show, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
  1982 Summer Small Works Show, Swope Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  1981 The Intimate Object, Downtown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
     
Selected Bibliography
Critical Reviews:  Solo Shows
  2010 Art in America: International Review June-July 2010
  2010 LA Times, The Western Wall, March 5, 2010
  2005 LA Times, March 18, 2005
  2001 Art in America, December 2001
  2001 LA Times, Thursday May 3, 2001
  2001 Art Scene, May 2001- vol. 20 no. 9 Continuing and Recommended;
  2001 The Jewish Journal, Rapture in Color; Vol 16, Number 6. 13-19 Nisan, 5761.April 6-12, 2001
  1998 Art in America: International Review June-July 1998
  1998 Artweek, January Issue
  1997 LA Times, Friday Nov. 28, 1997
  1989 Artforum, December 1989
  1989 LA Times, Friday Sept. 15, 1989
  1987 LA Times, Friday Sept. 15, 1989
  1987 LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”; Nov. 1987
  1985 LA Times, Friday, Jan. 11, 1985
  1984 LA Times, Friday, Jan. 13, 1984
     
Critical Reviews: Group Shows
  2004 LATimes, Drawings, August 13, 2004
  2003 Kansas City Star, LA POST COOL, February 16, 2003
  2002 Silicon Valley Community Newspapers, LA POST COOL, Friday Dec. 13. 2002
  2002 The Mercury News, LA POST COOL, Friday Dec. 6, 2002
  2002 “Brave Little Slackers”, Internet Review of LA POST COOL, December 2002
  2001 LA Times, The Importance of Being Ernest, Friday March 2, 2001
  1998 LA Weekly, “Arts Pick of the Week”, Drawings IV, Aug. 14-20;
  1996 Contra Costa Times, Burning Lights, Jan. 12- 18, 1996
  1995 The Press Enterprise, Burning Lights, Oct. 22, 1995
  1994 LA Times, Burning Lights, Saturday Nov. 12, 1994
  1994 LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”; Burning Lights Nov. 25-Dec.1, 1994
  1992 LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”; Personal Mythologies Apri1, 1994
  1988 LA Times, Small Works: Cal Arts Alumni Show, Sept. 16, 1988
     
Features
  2010 Response, back cover; spring 2010 - vol. 33 no. 1
  2009 The Other Journal The Aesthetics Issue July 2, 2009
  2008 Response, Beyond the Bounds; spring 2008 – vol.31 no.1
  2004 Response, back cover; winter 2004 - vol. 27 no. 1
  2003 Art Scene The New Zeitgeist, John O’Brien, May 2005
  2000 Flannery O’Connor Bulletin, Volume 26-27-998-2000; Reflections on the Pilgrimage, Laura Lasworth; Published by Georgia College & State University
  2000 LA Times: San Gabreil Valley Weekly, For All That is Sacred, June 19-15, 2000
  1998 BUZZ, What’s the Buzz: The Art Page, April 1998
  1997 IMAGE Journal, Post Modern Mystic: The Art of Laura Lasworth; Fall-1997-Number 17;
  1997 Gadfly, Article on the Art of Laura Lasworth, December Vol. 2 No. 12
  1996 Ribot, Paul Vangelisti, Editor, [CONS] 1996
  1988 Visions, Spaces of Mind: The Art of Laura Lasworth; winter 1987 – vol. 1 no. 5
  1989 Angeles Magazine, August -1989
  1987 Franc Magazine, November '87 Issue
  1986 LA Weekly, The Next Generation: Critics Pics-Laura Lasworth”, December 4, 1986
  1984 Images and Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1 July/August, 1984
  1983 Art Week, “Painting of the Month”, Selected by Betty Asher, Vol. 14, No. 11, March 19, 1983
     
Books
  2003 Lanterna Magica, by Toti Mary O’Brian, (Chapter: “Petite Fleur” - on the Art of Laura Lasworth); Mignon Nemapress, 2003 (Italian language only)
  2000 Art & Soul, Adrienne Chaplin & Hilary Brand, Paternoster Publishing
  1990 The Book of Cups, Garth Clark, Abbeville Press, New York; Cross River Press Ltd.
     
Catalogues
  2012 The Spirit of Prophecy; Publisher, Saint James Cathedral, Seattle 2012
  2010 The Western Wall; catalogue; Publisher, Lora Schlesinger Gallery/Lulu Publishing, 2010
  2007 The S-Word: The State of 'Spirituality' in Contemporary Art; full color illustrated catalogue in CD format
  2006 The S-Word: The State of 'Spirituality' in Contemporary Art; Lulu Publishing 2006
  2005 Contemporary Art As Preparation, by David Judson; Lulu Publishing
  2000 Representing LA; Publisher, Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA
  2000 The Changing Face of Portraiture; Publisher, Chapman University, Orange, CA
  1994 Burning Lights; Publisher, La Band Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University
  1986 Crime & Punishment: Reflections of Violence in Contemporary Art; Publisher, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
     
Illustration
  2011 Book Cover Jacket, Beauty Will Save the World, by Gregory Wolfe
  2009 Cover Art, Presence Vol.15 No.3, September
  2008 Cover Art, Response, spring 2008 – vol. 31 no. 1
  2008 Program Cover, Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts 18th National Conference
  2000 CD Cover, Reluctant Hosts, Non Credo
  1998 Album Cover, Reluctant Hosts, Non Credo
     
Significant Lectures and Panels
  2011 Iconic & Narrative: Looking at George Tooker, North Park University, Chicago IL
  2010 Use of Color and Narrative in Painting, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  2010 Story Telling in Contemporary Art, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA
  2009 Art & Theology, Guest Lecture for IMAGE sponsored event, Seattle, WA
  2007 Face Down On Concrete: A Converstaion on Art, Theology, and Hope, (with Robert Deeble, Sean Dimond, Laura lasworth, and Jennifer Maier), Seattle Pacifc University Art Center Gallery, Seattle WA
  2007 An Evening with Lucy Shaw and Laura Lasworth, IMAGE Journal Event, Redmond, WA
  2006 The Resurrection, Celebration Week 2006, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
  2005 Artists Talk, Idyllwild Arts Summer Program, Painting’s Edge, Idylwilde, CA
  2005 Plenary Speaker, IMAGE Glen Workshop, Guest Artist, Santa Fe NM
  2003 Faith and Fiction in Painting, IMAGE Conference, Speaker, Seattle WA;
  2003 The Day of Common Learning – “Art and Science: Similarities and Differences”, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
  2002 LA Post Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, (with Curator Michael Duncan and artists Ethan Acres, Sharon Ellis, Karen Carson, and Keith Skylar), San Jose, CA
  2002 Art and Theology, presented to Theology Department, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle WA
  2001 Artists Talk for Love's Lyric, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica CA
  2001 Art and Literature, Pasadena Center, Guest Speaker, Pasadena, CA
  2001 Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle; 'Point of View Series', The J. Paul Getty Museum, Maibu CA
  2001 The Career/Vocation of the Catholic Artist, 'Sacred Arts Festival', Pasadena, CA
  2001 Panelist for exhibit, Marks and Beyond, Mount San Antonio College, San Antonio, CA
  1998 Art Center College of Design, “The Song of Songs”, Pasadena, CA.
  1997 Gallery talk for exhibit, The Habit of Being: A Portrait of  Miss Mystery and Manners, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1997 Narrative in Painting, Panelist with Ruth Weisberg and Patty Wickman, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA,
  1996 Artists Talk, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA,
  1995 Burning Lights - Artists Talk, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA,
  1994 Burning Lights - Artists Talk, La Band Art Gallery, LMU, Los Angeles, CA,
  1987 Guest Speaker, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
  1985 Guest Speaker, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
     
Residency
  2001 Artist in Residence to accompany traveling exhibit based on the life and work of Flannery O’Connor, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA
     
Education
  1979 MFA - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
  1977 BFA - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
     

Gallery Representation

Lora Schlesinger Gallery
http://www.loraschlesinger.com/index.html
gallery@loraschlesinger.com

LL Studio

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