| Laura Makinen Artist Statement: The basis of much of my work is the translation of photographs into paint and print. I am interested in the transformation that the images undergo, the changes that happen rather unconsciously, and the meanings that emerge from this process. When I take an image from the past and bring it into the present in a new form I feel like a time traveler of sorts. I am initiating a conversation between history and the present.
Artist Bio: Laura Makinen recently finished an undergraduate degree in painting at the Massachusetts College of Art. She has lived n Boston for the last six years. Before moving to Boston, Laura studied religion at Grinnell College in Iowa, and she grew up in Chicago. Her work has been shown at various spaces throughout the country and is included in Studio Visit, a publication recently put out by the Open Studios Press. Laura's work will also be included in Held Still, a show of painters who work from photographic sources, in Fort Point, Boston, in May 2009. Laura is re-locating to San Francisco this August.
Gallery Sister Sorel
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