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ARTtalk: Christina Laurel, Refugium

Mar 31, 2021 @ 12:00 am - 7:00 pm

Location: Online – A private link to access the event will be emailed to each registrant.


Cost: FREE

Join us as Christina Laurel share the artistic practice and insight behind her exhibition, Refugium, currently being exhibited at the Turchin Center!

Christina Laurel is a paper artist creating installations and two-dimensional art, all with a Japanese aesthetic. Her mission is to create an “exhale” moment, an oasis that offers a respite and refuge from our daily sensory overload. Suspended lace panels support a migrating pattern of butterflies that cast shadows and respond to air movement. Perambulating – whether with shoes, walker or wheelchair – through the suspended cocoons and grounded totems of “Refugium,” the viewer will become a part of the installation and a part of the art.

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Refugium: Christina Laurel

About the Artist

Christina Laurel is an artist of paper and in 2005 she removed her art from the frame; in 2009 she began crafting suspensions that freely rotate and in 2014 shoji paper made its debut in an installation featuring one of her nature motifs – the gingko. She originally studied fashion design at Cornell University, then fine art at the University of Maryland and SUNY Brockport, earning a BS Studio Art in 2009.  Laurel’s artistic mission: “to create an exhale moment, an oasis of respite from the sensory bombardment of today’s world.” Her “Refugium” and “Emergent” installations were developed during several artist residencies: 2017, ArtRez, Newnan, GA; 2016, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; 2015, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, Rabun Gap, GA; and 2014, Paducah Arts Alliance, Paducah, KY. She has participated in a multitude of solo, duo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums and venues in South Carolina, North Carolina, New York, Kentucky and Georgia. She now resides in Liberty, South Carolina.

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Date:
Mar 31, 2021
Time:
12:00 am - 7:00 pm
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