About
Mary Laube received her MFA from the University of Iowa and her BFA from Illinois State University. She has held solo exhibitions at Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC), Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC), Tristar Arts (Knoxville, TN), and Groundfloor Contemporary (Birmingham) among others. Recent group exhibitions include Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia), the Wassaic Project (NY), Laney Contemporary (Savannah), The Warbling Collective (London), Culture House D.C., and the Knoxville Museum of Art. Artist residencies include Yaddo, Wassaic Project, Hambidge Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Stiwdeo Maelor (Wales). Her work has been published in Art Maze Mag, Maake Magazine, and New American Paintings, and reviewed in White Hot Magazine and New Art Examiner. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
In painting, the picture plane carries the promise of spatial expansion: an implied horizon with limitless possibility. Yet, the physical surface of a painting agitates this illusion, as it asserts its truth as a flat surface. Within this plane, Mary Laube’s work questions how cultural objects accumulate meaning across time and space. Fragments of folk paintings, textiles, ornaments, and other objects are echoed in the work as synthesized forms that appear flattened, off-kilter, and unnamable. Through the abstraction of historical objects her work gives form to the de-territorialized conditions of a globalized and colonized world. In doing so, the works become artifacts themselves, antagonizing our relationship to culture, and the fraught process of defining it.
Contact
laube.mary@gmail.com
IG: @mary_laube
Morgan Lehman Gallery
526 W 26th St 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
www.morganlehmangallery.com