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- Eleanna Anagnos
- Lisha Bai
- Michael Berryhill
- Jude Broughan
- Calvin Burton
- Jesse Chapman
- Angela Conant
- Jared Deery
- Rachel Domm
- Madeline Donahue
- Georgia Elrod
- Marianne Gagnier
- Linda Geary
- Ethan Greenbaum
- Catherine Haggarty
- Laura Holmes McCarthy
- Eric Hibit
- Jaye Kim
- Marta Lee
- Elisa Lendvay
- JJ Manford
- MaryKate Maher
- Sarah McDougald Kohn
- Michael McGrath
- Leeza Meksin
- Mepaintsme
- Keiko Narahashi
- Heidi Norton
- Adam Novak
- Emilia Olsen
- Robyn O'Neil
- Mónica Palma
- Christopher Peterson
- Meghan Petras
- Janine Polak
- Cait Porter
- Padma Rajendran
- Cuyler Remick
- Nora Riggs
- Leslie Roberts
- Rachel Roske
- George Rush
- Brian Scott Campbell
- Zach Seeger
- Adam Sipe
- Elisa Soliven
- Jered Sprecher
- Al Svoboda
- Shino Takeda
- Anne Thompson
- Julie Torres
- Zahar Vaks
- Ben K. Voss
- Maria Walker
- Susan Wanklyn
- Karla Wozniak
- Sun You
Laura Vahlberg
Laura Vahlberg paints pictures that represent the everyday and mundane within the context of formal abstraction. While working she thinks about the air quality in a motif. Artist Lennart Anderson once called a painting "a box of light and air." She asks questions like: What color is the air? How does it tie together everything it touches? How is it unique? These questions inform color mixing so that within each painting there is a description of distance.
Inspired by Pierre Bonnard's studio paintings, Vahlberg works primarily on unstretched primed linen or canvas cloth taped to a drawing board. She uses masking tape to crop or expand the picture as the idea progresses in order to keep the dimensions of the work flexible.
She works on site in front of her chosen subject, nature acting as both reference material and active contributor. She acts as both observer and participant, delving into the process as intuition and perception dictate the direction.
In this context of dialogue inside the painting, a sense of redistributed hierarchy reveals itself. All of the pieces in a scene at the beginning of a painting are identified democratically only as shape and color. As the picture progresses, the shapes and colors create their own order in service of the overall idea. Often the idea appears first as a formal abstract construction, and then a narrative emerges. In this way an abstract experience happens within a representational field.
Laura Vahlberg's work has been exhibited around the U.S. (Los Angeles, Alabama, Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia). She has studied under artists including Israel Hershberg, Elana Hagler, Sarah Rutherfoord, Susan Zurbrigg, Ken Szmagaj, and Susan Jane Walp. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia and received her Bachelors in Fine Arts at James Madison University.