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 Laura Bruce in Berlin 2012 | |
| Born | September 28, 1959 East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Website | www |
Laura Bruce (born September 28, 1959) is an American contemporary artist living in Berlin.
Laura Bruce | |
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| Laura Bruce in Berlin 2012 | |
| Born | September 28, 1959 East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Website | www |
Laura Bruce (born September 28, 1959) is an American contemporary artist living in Berlin.
Bruce studied painting at The State University of New Paltz, New York and sculpture at The Slade School of Fine Art in London. [1] She has been visiting professor at the Exeter School of Art, The Slade School of Fine in London, the Berlin-Weissensee Kunsthochschule, and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden.[ citation needed ] Bruce has taught at the summer academies in Leipzig, Bremerhaven, Dresden, and at the Summer Workshops at the Neo Rauch Grafikstiftung. [2] She is an art educator at the Otto Hahn School in Berlin.[ citation needed ]
Laura Bruce is the lead singer in the concept band Dangerpony, [3] [4] who performed live in 2012 for the exhibition opening I Wish This Was A Song at the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in a program including Jan Köchermann & Doppelgenscher, Diamanda Galas, and Killl. [5]
A close analysis of the works reveals an intuited and abstracted sense of vision on several levels, and not merely in terms of the drawn material applications, subtle speculative hatching contrasted with intense passages of graphite mark making, but rather they are not so much descriptive as an imbued consciousness of place. While this forms a visual paradox of sorts, the viewer has a feeling of substantial ephemerality, an intuited materialisation of landscape that reaches out towards and into the phenomenological ungraspable.
Mark Gisbourne,exhibition catalog ROHKUNSTBAU XXIV, 2018
Her work explores drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, video [6] and performance. Large-scale black and white graphite drawings are an important part of her oeuvre. They are characterized by bold strokes, clear contrasts of black and white, and a distinctive representation of nature as power / phenomenon / myth and the human relationship to it.
Her drawing process of detailed mark making against smooth, large surfaces of complex gray tones. Her drawings have echoes of 19th century European Romantic painting and Hudson River School painting in the U.S. Bruce often works with historical references, which she approaches from a contemporary perspective, for instance in her installation Perpetual, a work of 79 drawings based on Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos , which she showed in full for the first time at Haus am Waldsee Museum in Berlin in 2018. [7] Or her drawing / sound installation Goodbye is Half the Words You Know (2009-2013), where Bruce presents 10 portraits of classic country singers and reinterprets their songs with her band, Dangerpony. A part of this work was exhibited in 2016 in the exhibition Passion - Fan Behavior and Art (curated by Christoph Tannert) at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin [8] and the Ludwig Museum, Budapest. [9] It was shown in full in the group exhibition I Wish This Was A Song [10] (curated by Stina Högkvist and Sabrina van der Ley) at the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in 2013. [5]
Bruce' works can be found in the collections of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Artothek and the Video-Forum), [11] the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, the Berlinische Galerie, the Collection of the City of Mainz [12] and the Vattenfall Foundation, Berlin.
Laura Bruce's large-format (10 x 6 m) site-specific commission, "De Septentrione ad Astrum" is a permanent mural realized in 2015 in Aschersleben in the Bestehornpark building and officially handed over to the city of Aschersleben. [13] [14]
| Year | Exhibition | Location |
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| 2019 | Inspiration Meisterwerk [25] | Museum Villa Rot |
| 2018 | Stadt-Land-Fluss [26] | Museum Boppard, Kurfürstliche Burg |
| 2018 | 15 Works on Paper [27] | BEERS Gallery, London |
| 2018 | Mind the Gap – Rohkunstbau XXIV [28] [29] | Schloss Lieberose |
| 2018 | Baustellenfest [30] | Haus am Waldsee, Berlin |
| 2017 | Wir nennen es Arbeit [31] | Galleria Opere Scelte, Turin |
| 2017 | surf [32] | Galerie Hartwich, Rügen |
| 2017 | Striche, Kreise, Landschaft, Preise [33] | Schau Fenster, Berlin |
| 2016 | Passion. Fan Behavior and Art. [9] | Ludwig Museum Budapest |
| 2015 | Wir kommen auf den Hund [34] | Kupferstichkabinett Berlin |
| 2015 | Passion. Fan Behavior and Art. [8] | Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin |
| 2015 | Paperworlds | Museum der Phantasie, Buchheim |
| 2015 | Du sollst dir kein Bild machen [35] | Berliner Dome, Berlin |
| 2014 | Criss-Cross | Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin |
| 2013 | On Paper [36] | Eigen & Art LAB, Berlin |
| 2013 | Die Kunst der Zeichnung [37] | Kunstverein Essenheim / Altes Rathaus Ingelheim |
| 2012 | Kühllabor [38] | regionale12, Steiermark |
| 2012 | I Wish this Was a Song [10] | Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo |
| 2012 | Drawing Biennale [39] | Kunstverein Eislingen |
| 2012 | Dies ist die Nacht, die tausend Tagen Trotz kann sagen [40] | Guardini-Stiftung, Berlin |
| 2011 | Outdoor Excursions [41] | Burlington City Arts |
| 2010 | Reading Room #4 – FUKT MAGAZINE [42] | Nomas Foundation, Rome |
| 2010 | km 500 2 [43] | Kunsthalle Mainz |
| 2010 | Fokus Łódź Biennale [44] | The International Artists' Museum, Łódź |
| 2010 | Drawings II [45] | Fahnemann Projects, Berlin |
| 2010 | Balmoral Blend [46] | Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen |
| 2009 | Hortus Apertus [47] | Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems |
| 2008 | Menschen und Orte [48] | Kunstverein Konstanz |
| 2008 | City Beats [49] | Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai |
| 2007 | Drunk on Dreams [50] | fruehsorge, Berlin |
| 2004 | The Medium is the Tedium [51] | The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2003 | Expand | Volkart Stiftung, Winterthur |
| 2002 | Wachsernde Identitäten [52] | Georg Kolbe Museum |
| 2002 | Thin Skin [53] | AXA Gallery, New York |
| 2002 | Private Affairs | Kunsthaus Dresden |
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