Laura Morrison Art

CURRENT EXHIBITION

FIBER • FASHION • FEMINISM
The Art Center-Highland Park

FIBER • FASHION • FEMINISM
The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
April 29 - June 11, 2022
Common Thread Benefit event: April 29, 2022
Art Reception: May 20, 2022 from 5:30-8

Friday, April 29th at 7 PM is the premiere of Fiber-Fashion-Feminism at The Art Center Highland Park's Annual Spring Benefit, Common Thread, featuring music by DJ Tess, Celebrity Guest Host Monica Pederson, and a fashion show by Maria Pinto and Katrin Schnabl. The best party on the North Shore!

I am excited to be exhibiting fifteen pieces in the Fiber • Fashion • Feminism show. Join me on Friday, May 20 for the reception!

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CHICAGO READER: April 1, 2022
Subverting the dominant paradigm, one stitch at a time:
“Fiber-Fashion-Feminism” visits the Art Center Highland Park
by Noah Berlatsky

NEW CITY DESIGN: April 20, 2022
Weaving Together: Fiber Artists Reframe Feminism at the Art Center Highland Park by Vasia Rigou

EXHIBIT DETAILS

Image: Don't Touch by Laura Morrison

PAST EXHIBITIONS

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Augemented Reality Art Walk

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SITE
Augmented Reality Art Walk
Thru October 15, 2021

I'm excited to announce that the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts (NHBCA), in partnership with Membit, Inc., invited me to participate in an augmented reality (AR) art-experience in four regions of NH, including Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, Arms Park in Manchester, Market Square in Portsmouth and the Mountain View Grand Resort in Whitefield.

Two of my works will appear larger than life in each location. Small Soldiers and Mutation: Specimen G. I've always been keenly interested in public art and the AR Art Walk offers a new and intriguing way for my art to be seen in an entirely new way!

You can explore the artwork at any one of these sites using the Membit app on an iOS device. Interact with art and technology by viewing 3-D augmented reality representations of my work and three other NH artists; Roger Goldenberg, Nathan Macomber, and Marta Spendowska. Use the app camera function to take a snapshot with the AR artwork, leave a digital memory for the next person to discover or record a video in the app to share your experience with others on social media!

Learn more!

Here I am holding the real sculpture next to the augmented reality sculpture seen via the Membit App on an iPhone or iPad.

Small Soldiers

Mutation: Specimen G

"HIDDEN" PRESS

UNION LEADER: Monday, August 16, 2021
Mark Hayward's City Matters: Turn an lunch spot into an gallery? There's an app for that

MOMENTS LIKE THIS
Woman Made Gallery

MOMENT LIKE THIS
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
August 26-September 26, 2021

Moments Like This, is a group exhibition juried by Jessica Bingham featuring the work of 42 women and non-binary artists. Moments Like This explores the Slow Living lifestyle, and considers the practice of rest and retreat as an anti-capitalist practice. The works invite the audience to contemplate, process, rest, and come back into ourselves and our communities.

ONLINE GALLERY

ARTIST STATEMENT: Keeping it Together
This series of 24 weavings were created in the depths of the pandemic while undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Inspired by Sheila Hick's small weavings, I had, by chance, begun a weaving experiment on a cardboard loom a few days before my cancer diagnosis in August of 2020. I decided to continue working on these abstract weavings throughout the course of my treatment which included 16 rounds of chemotherapy, surgery and 4 weeks of radiation. My treatment encompassed nine months. I finished the last weaving on my last day of radiation.

I worked on these weavings in the evenings at the very end of each day. Each piece began with no preconceived notion of an outcome. I choose the colors that appealed to me that day from small balls of yarn in my stash. Each warp has a different color. The weavings are loose and somewhat crude, not perfectly square or finely finished. The work was slow, soothing and methodical.

All along I felt that the weavings were a visual representation of my inner psyche during my treatment. Having a healing project to sink into each evening was a lifeline during the long, dark months of the pandemic, made even darker with my diagnosis.

My prognosis going forward is very positive. I look at this work knowing I did my best to fight the good fight.

Woman Made Gallery

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BOSTON VOYAGER
Thought-Provokers: Middlesex, Essex & New Hampshire

ART & LIFE WITH LAURA MORRISON
I began with creating collages and assemblages, often incorporating fiber into the artwork. Over time, fiber has become my primary medium. New Hampshire opened my eyes to the beauty of nature which serves as the primary point of inspiration for all of my work. Read more>>