Laura Frare
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Born: 1963
Lives: New York State
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2003
MFA Painting and Drawing
University at Albany
Albany, NY
1987-1988
Sojourn: Painting
Urbino, Italy
1985
Bachelor of Science. Visual Art
minor: Italian Studies
S.U.N.Y. New Paltz
New Paltz, NY
1985
Painting Scholarship
Provincetown Art Association
And Museum School
Provincetown, MA
1983-1984
Apprenticeship
Woodcut printmaker
Pietro Sanchini
Urbino, Italy
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2005
Selections from the Tiles Project
Yates Gallery
Siena College
Loudenville, NY
1995
Laura Frare:
Paintings and Drawings
Upstairs Gallery
Albany Center Galleries
Albany, NY
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2009
Mindful Images
Kingwood College Art Gallery
Kingwood, Texas
2008
ACC Faculty Exhibit
Visual Arts Gallery
Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
2007
ACC Faculty Exhibit
SUNY Plaza Show
Albany, NY
2007
Laura Frare
The Tiles Project, 2002- the present
In conjunction with publication of White Ravens book; a collaboration with poet Stuart Bartow
Visual Arts Gallery
Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
2006
Faces and Facades
Upstate Artists Guild
Albany, NY
2006
The Drawing Room
Saratoga County Arts Council
Saratoga Springs, NY
2004, 2005
Night of 1,000 drawings
Artist's Space
New York, NY
2005
Significantly Small
Gallery 100
Saratoga Springs, NY
2005
Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region Juried Exhibition
Albany Institute of History
and Art, Albany, NY
2004, 2005
Art By Art Faculty, New Work
Visual Arts Gallery
Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
2004
Abstract Expressions
Gallery 100
Saratoga Springs, NY
2003
Trish Lyell, Recent work,
with gallery artists
Gallery 100
Saratoga Springs, NY
2003
MFA Thesis Exhibition
University Art Museum
University at Albany,
State University of New York,
Albany, NY
2002
Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region Juried Exhibition
Albany Institute of History
and Art, Albany, NY
2002
24th Annual Photo Regional
Fulton Street Gallery
Troy, NY
2001
A Retrospective of Exhibitions
Visual Arts Gallery
Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
2001
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region Juried Exhibition
Schenectady Museum
Schenectady, NY
2001
Journeys
Albany Center Galleries
Albany, NY
show traveled to
Gabrielle Roy Library
Quebec City, Canada
2000
Daily Drawings
Lake George Arts Project
Court House Gallery
Lake George, NY
1999
Contemporary Drawings
Leslie Urbach Gallery
Albany Center Galleries
Albany, NY
1998
Women of the Northeast
Fulton Street Gallery
Troy, NY
1996
In Transition
Saratoga County Arts Council
Saratoga Springs, NY
1996
18th Annual Photography Regional
Leslie Urbach Gallery
Albany Center Galleries
Albany, NY
1996
Laura Frare and Nicholas Warner: Painting and Sculpture
Visual Arts Gallery
Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
1995
Laura Frare:
Paintings and Drawings
Upstairs Gallery
Albany Center Galleries
Albany, NY
1994
Weird Photos
Green County Council on the Arts
Cattskill, NY
1994
Abstract Painting and Sculpture
Vine Street Gallery
Gloversville, NY
1993
Landmarks
Russell Sage College Gallery
Schacht Fine Arts Center
Troy, NY
1993
Faculty Exhibition
Albany Institute of History
and Art, Albany, NY
1992
Abstractions
Fort Edward Arts Center
Fort Edward, NY
1992
National Art Exhibition
Cooperstown Art Association
Cooperstown, NY
1992
Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region Juried Exhibition
Turnbull Gallery,
Schenectady Musuem
Schenectady, NY
1985
Student Works
Provincetown Art Association
Provincetown, MA
1985
Faculty Selects Student Show
College Gallery
S.U.N.Y. New Paltz
New Paltz, NY
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I am interested in the mode of image making that recognizes and allows for the mind's movement toward association. My work emerges from a commitment to the daily practice of automatist drawing. I have dedicated myself to work within the aleatory process as a means to free my subconscious image making capabilities and to gain access to a more personal vocabulary of image making, and to express those ideas within a visual language.
The Tiles Project, 2002 to the present is a time based drawing project.
My drawing process in The Tiles Project takes its cue from the Surrealist game, exquisite corpse. In the fall of 2002, and in an effort to make a large, time-based work,
I made a series of six-inch square wood panels to use as modules.
I developed a process of applying and removing materials; alternately layering acrylic pigments applied with a putty knife between wet sanded layers of acrylic hard molding paste in order to build a ground. The wet sanding creates a very smooth surface that feels more like drawing paper. The layers build to reveal a latent image, which initiates an association as I draw into it with color pencils.
I am in the habit of dating every drawing like a kind of diary, arranging the tiles in chronological order like a calendar, but when they are shown out of context of the whole, in addition to the date, I give each drawing a subtitle based on the words or imagery apparent in the drawing.
During the year, it becomes a time-based accumulation of images that are conceived of and executed on a daily basis in the studio. The relationships of color, texture, imagery and detail tessellate and create episodic spatial events across the surface, emphasizing the meaning of the mutable present, as the composition continues to be modified by the daily additions to the growing whole.
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