Click here for CV
About the work
My current painting projects depict fictive canvas on real canvas, a doubling of the object we call a painting. The painted wrinkles are reflexive depictions of the actual wrinkles of the canvas before it is stretched, alluding to “as is” in material and process. The painting ground becomes a shallow undulating field, an arena on which imagery culled from vernacular culture and the history of painting adhere and interact. The canvas ground of the paintings function as a stand in for the mind –a mind in thought as well as the mind before those thoughts appear.
Bio
Associate Professor, Head, Painting and Drawing, University of Iowa
Laurel Farrin received a B.F.A. from Ohio University-Athens and an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland. She was an artist-in-residence at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; Yaddo, and the Millay Colony for the Arts, both in New York; and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Farrin received an individual artist grant from the Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Exhibitions include Lesley Heller Gallery; NY, NY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; The Bronx River Art Center; The Albany International Airport; Carroll Square Gallery, Wash. DC; Roswell Museum and Art Center; the Des Moines (Iowa) Art Center; the Florida Center for Contemporary Art in Tampa; Spaces in Cleveland, Ohio; Anton Gallery; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Washington Project for the Arts, in Washington, D.C.