Hello, I'm Laurey B.

I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at S.U.N.Y Albany​,​ New York​,​ where I studied painting and graphic design. I have painted throughout the years while working in corporate graphic design and raising a family. On the side​,​ I taught​,​ won awards​,​ became published​,​ participated in fellowships​,​ painted​,​ devoted myself to philanthropy. I am currently devoted to painting full-time. This series called “MITER” is a union formed between two edges that meet at an intersection. This notion resonates for me literally and figuratively as my work emerged from travel​,​ my personal freedom from depression​,​ letting go and releasing myself from being responsible to others. It merges my competence as a graphic designer and fine artist as I deconstruct and reconstruct grids using processes such as digital manipulation​,​ monoprinting​,​ photography​,​ painting and collage. With this series​,​ I rely on city lattice work by rolling black-inked brayers onto city streets to collect their impressions. My downward​,​ aesthetic gaze leads me to repetitive beauty of geometrics underfoot. This sequence of work provokes one to notice an existence of unobserved portals into a subterranean system that has been redefined and manifested through my artist’s eye recognizing the splendor in the beauty of the unnoticed. Eventually​,​ the geometrics become organic as I am constantly reducing them into irregular form. Additionally​,​ in my practice​,​ I am discovering metropolitan areas and their chronicles.