Laura Nugent creates painterly, non-representational works featuring fresh color and imperfect pattern relationships. Her surfaces are constructed out of the history he has collected in her studio: canvas or wood covered with older abandoned works on a plaster-like medium and on paper. She the sands and scrapes with different tools creating a new texture. Laura paints with many layers of acrylic and finishes with a gloss varnish or matte. Upon close inspection of her art, the viewer will be able to see her hand-painted, wobbly lines and the drips of paint which she had allowed to remain where they fell. As Laura works over several months on each painting, her mind starts to assign the meaning of color and pattern to more narrative elements. Her art become tapestries, aerial-view landscapes, or tributes to ordinary objects. Laura’s job as a painter is to take small moments and make them magnificent. Painting is has been her lifelong pursuit.
Her formal training in art began when she was still a teenager, and then graduated with a degree in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has lived and worked as an artist all over the United States. She makes her studio and home now near Kansas City and she travels widely to exhibit her work. She’s represented by Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, The Late Show, Kansas City, The Arts Company, Nashville, and Roan and Black, Saugatuck. The artist has exhibited at Lowe Mill Art Center, Campanella Gallery - Park University, Shirley Stiles Gallery, Dundee Gallery, Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, Irene B. French Art Gallery, among others.
