Laura Larson

Laura Larson

Laura Larson graduated from a Lutheran College during the time of the Vietnam War. She got her B.A. in Fine Art and Speech Communications / Theatre Arts - Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Influenced by the roar of the grease paint and the smell of the crowd, along with an immersion in printmaking techniques and strolls along the shores of Lake Michigan in all kinds of weather and a suspicion that being Lutheran wasn't her cup of tea, Larson headed for Chicago to seek her future.

She worked for a number of years as a commercial artist in a small "boutique" agency - again by the shores of Lake Michigan. Feeling a need for action and inspired by the fully engaged women's movement, she moved to Los Angeles and became a member of Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party," an art installation which celebrated women's achievements throughout the ages - exhibited worldwide.

During the 30 some years that she has lived in Los Angeles, Larson has been a ceramic decorator, a bookstore manager for an infamous art gallery, a non profit financial manager for two arts organizations, the director of a non-profit alternative art gallery and always an artist. She has been in numerous group shows, awarded 7 public art commissions in Los Angeles and Pasadena California. For four years Larson has been working on an adaptive installation - "The Looking Glass Lounge." She recently completed a public art piece for Fire Station #65 in Watts, CA which commemorates the Watts Prophets, a trio of poets who rose from the ashes of the 1965 Watt's uprising to become inspirational poets. Currently she is developing a piece called "Epidermis Emporium" for a solo show at Kristi Engle gallery in downtown Los Angeles, for March of 2007.