CURRENT 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!
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Here I am holding the real sculpture next to the augmented reality sculpture seen via the Membit App on an iPhone or iPad.
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Small Soldiers
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Mutation: Specimen G

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

MY COVID-19 2020 MEMORIAL PROJECT

PROJECT BEGINS...
Monday, May 18, 2020: In less than four months, 88,709 people  died in the United States from Covid-19. To give some perspective, the Vietnam War lost 58,209 over 20 years.

UPDATE: Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 111,477 deaths  
UPDATE: Friday, July 17, 2020 - 136,938 deaths 
UPDATE: Friday, July 31, 2020- 150,238
FINAL: Thursday, December 31, 2020- 341,199 deaths

Early on in the pandemic, I decided to create a memorial to those who had died from Covid-19. I committed myself to make a book for each 1000 people who have died. Each page represents 10 souls lost and each book has 100 pages.  I originally started this project committing myself to memorizing all of the deaths until the crisis was over but that soon became too overwhelming. I have altered the project several times. The final iteration has been to create an installation which I am currently working while the death toll continues to march on. 

100 books=100, 000 deaths
(Each page represents 10 deaths)

10,000 Tiny Coffins cut out from the books= 100, 000 deaths 
(Each coffin represents 10 deaths)

100 Prints (10 of 10) = 100,000 deaths 
(Each page marked to represent 1000 deaths)

41,999 marks on paper= 41,999 deaths
(One mark represents one death)

I've wrote a blog post about this project when it first began. It includes more context and a partial installation of the project representing 10,000 souls lost. 

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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>>

RECENT WORK 

EMERGENCE
Mohair, Wool, Silk and Acrylic Fibers, Glass Bead and, Wire
KEEPING IT TOGEHTER
Fiber, 24 5.5" x 5.5" weavings
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COALESCE
Wool, Recycled Wool Garment, Embroidery Floss, Glass Beads
Laura Morrison Art • Concord, NH