L A U R A M C C A L L U M
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    • Artist Statement
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  • WEAVINGS
  • COLLAGE
    • Sabbatique
    • Game's End
    • Danse du Futur
  • TEARS
    • Tears of Despair >
      • Installation Views
      • Individual Tears
      • Tears with Information
    • Tears of Joy
  • VIDEO
  • OTHER SERIES
    • After the Storm
    • Bagan
    • Manuscript
    • Reflection and Passage
    • Interscape
    • Bitter Fruits
    • Chants and Dreams
    • Glimpse
    • Death to Life
    • Selected Earlier Work
  • PRESS
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I left my studio, my home, my job, New York, the USA in September 2017 to spend a sabbatical year in France. The aim was to leave the familiar and become a foreigner in Paris, to work in media less familiar to me and to become a student again. In my small apartment in the 11th Arrondissement, I eked out a studio in the corner. This required that I use materials and techniques that would neither damage the room nor compromise my living situation. For me, limitations of this sort induce creativity. After having just before completed a large installation, I had to adapt my creative process to my physical surroundings and began making collages. Tarlatan gauze used in a printmaking studio where I had begun to work intrigued me and became the primary material for the series that unfolded. Along with the gauze, I used other familiar materials: graphite, charcoal, acrylic paint and matte medium.
 
This creative process allowed me to make three separate, but related, series, which you can view by clicking on the following links: Sabbatique, Game's End  and Danse du Futur.

Untitled (Paris 7_1.18), 2018 (detail)

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Artist Statement
    • CV and Exhibitions
  • WEAVINGS
  • COLLAGE
    • Sabbatique
    • Game's End
    • Danse du Futur
  • TEARS
    • Tears of Despair >
      • Installation Views
      • Individual Tears
      • Tears with Information
    • Tears of Joy
  • VIDEO
  • OTHER SERIES
    • After the Storm
    • Bagan
    • Manuscript
    • Reflection and Passage
    • Interscape
    • Bitter Fruits
    • Chants and Dreams
    • Glimpse
    • Death to Life
    • Selected Earlier Work
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT