BIO
Education: BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2008
Emphasis in Art Education, Photography and Fibers and Material Studies, Intermediate Spanish Certificate, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, IL. Exchange Program, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 2007. Summer Study Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, France, 2006. Residencies: Harold Arts, Chesterhill, Ohio, 2010. Lethal Poetry, Chicago, Illinois, 2009, Ox-bow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan, USA, 2006. Last Awards & Exhibitions: I’m Not A Good Enough Feminist, Brooklyn, NY, 2011. Scroll Bowl, Frost Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
In-Between Spaces, Berrie Center Photo Lounge, New Jersey. Guest Speaker, Northeastern Illinois University, 2011. Study/Space, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Mexico: A World of Toys, Chicago Children’s Museum, Chicago, IL, 2010.
Education: BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2008
Emphasis in Art Education, Photography and Fibers and Material Studies, Intermediate Spanish Certificate, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, IL. Exchange Program, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 2007. Summer Study Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, France, 2006. Residencies: Harold Arts, Chesterhill, Ohio, 2010. Lethal Poetry, Chicago, Illinois, 2009, Ox-bow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan, USA, 2006. Last Awards & Exhibitions: I’m Not A Good Enough Feminist, Brooklyn, NY, 2011. Scroll Bowl, Frost Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
In-Between Spaces, Berrie Center Photo Lounge, New Jersey. Guest Speaker, Northeastern Illinois University, 2011. Study/Space, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Mexico: A World of Toys, Chicago Children’s Museum, Chicago, IL, 2010.
Laura Pawson
EXHIBITIONS
En [caja]
27.04.2011 to 20.05.2011
En[caja]/Just a Shade Off is the name of the site-specific installation that the young artist Laura Pawson produced during her residence in 'ace, which will be on view until May 19.
The work questions about how the concept of race is socially constructed and how this construction affects the relationships between people belonging to different ethnic groups in the American society, posing a the same time a statement on her own whiteness in a society with interracial conflicts. In the installation at the Espacio Transversal the use of letters, the construction of phrases heard and taken for granted about races in addition to her own figure build a kind of parcous along the gallery which ends with two visual-literary statements: "White as night"/"Black as light”. By reversing the adjectives that produce value judgments on the individuals this piece reflects on the complexity of racism while faces the futility of defining individuals by the color of their skin. AC
The work questions about how the concept of race is socially constructed and how this construction affects the relationships between people belonging to different ethnic groups in the American society, posing a the same time a statement on her own whiteness in a society with interracial conflicts. In the installation at the Espacio Transversal the use of letters, the construction of phrases heard and taken for granted about races in addition to her own figure build a kind of parcous along the gallery which ends with two visual-literary statements: "White as night"/"Black as light”. By reversing the adjectives that produce value judgments on the individuals this piece reflects on the complexity of racism while faces the futility of defining individuals by the color of their skin. AC