Laura Fischer's sculptures are intended to be building sites, or places of production, where she can perform patience, practice, discipline, and work. Her tendency to seek discipline and control through the means of a systematic process is often met with her other tendency to act intuitively and seek beauty in a finished object. Inconsistency and contradiction—despite proper planning and attentiveness—are outcomes that she often faces in the studio, and are welcome characters in her series of sculptures.

Her recent series of forms foraged from nature explores knotted structures—one of the oldest gestures known by mankind. Through this ancient textile technique, the work touches on themes of persistent patterns and habits, cycles, loops, and cumulative ghosts. The impulse to repeat. Compulsory, obsessed, possessed and bound by inherited behavior. Tenderness and awe and long-form prayer are also ideas that have emerged from this recent work.

Laura holds an MFA from San Francisco State University and a BA from Colorado College. Her work has been exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Headlands Center for the Arts, Øgaard, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Transmitter Gallery in in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been featured in Colossal, Tatter Journal and The Financial Times’ How To Spend It Series. Her small art objects can be found for purchase here and at a small number of shops in the US, please see list below.

Laura lives in Bellingham, Washington. She also makes jewelry under the moniker SUN, which can be found here — a slow and ongoing exploration of adornment and precious material.

Email Laura at lauralivingstonfischer@gmail.com

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