ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores images and ideas that often go unseen in cultures, the news, and our daily lives. Visibility Beyond Me is an installation where the audience enters a space and selects the color of lights interacting with the imagery. Each different color of RGB light reveals individual layers of dense, superimposed imagery. In one layer the audience sees a group of marginalized people; when the color of the light changes, the people disappear. What would encourage a shift in how the marginalized are seen, valued and accepted as contributing members of society? Of course, there are no simple answers. Nonetheless, I visually contemplate what it could look like to move toward common ground with one another despite perceived differences in our increasingly polarized society.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Laura Stevenson is an artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Taylor University in Indiana. She holds a MFA in Painting from the University of New Hampshire and Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from Taylor. Stevenson had four solo exhibitions since 2020 and has exhibited throughout the United States and in New Delhi, India. In 2018, she was accepted to participate in a 2-week art fellowship in China. Following the seminar, artists produced work that was a part of a group exhibition called Matter and Spirit that travelled throughout the United States for four years. Laura works in a variety of mediums ranging from painting, printmaking, and sculpture to interactive installations. Her work shows interest in discovering more about what may often appear as unseen in cultures, the news, and our daily lives.
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