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My work consists of small assemblages constructed with handcrafted wooden boxes, old photographic portraits, and unusual found objects that suggest memories, relics, and mystery. In some assemblages, altered photographs or other objects are treated as precious. At other times, an antique snapshot, painted image, chain, or cricket cage suggest old secrets to be unlocked and riddles to be solved.
Lately I’ve been reading books, like Richard Dawkin’s "Unweaving the Rainbow," about evolution and genetics. She’s been trying to understand what scientists know about shifting tectonic plates, ice ages, and extinction. Learning how scientists understand history offers new perspectives on our current brief and fortunate existences. Change, in personal, cultural, and geologic time-lines, and how individuals comprehend and respond to change, are the moving forces behind my newest work.
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2004
watching through windows 2
Porter Street Gallery
MCLA
North Adams, Massachusetts
watching through windows Contemporary Artist Center
North Adams, Massachusetts
1996
Excavations and Allegories
M.F.A. Exhibition
Alliance for the Varied Arts
Logan, Utah
1990
Laura Christensen: New Paintings
McKinley Foundation
Champaign, Illinois
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2007
Boxed Sets: Assembling Objects, Images, and People
Kidspace @ MASS MoCA
North Adams, Massachusetts
Exhibition with intensive artist residency program in local schools
2006
Humanity: Contemporary Art of the Humane Image
MCLA Gallery 51
North Adams, Massachusetts
4 x 4
Eclipse Mill Gallery
North Adams, Massachusetts
2005
The MCLA Desk Project (donation to fundraiser for arts scholarships)
Gallery 51
North Adams, Massachusetts
[re]Collections
The Arts Center of the Capital Region
Troy, New York
2004
watching through windows 2 (solo exhibition)
Porter Street Gallery
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
North Adams, Massachusetts
watching through windows (solo exhibition)
Contemporary Artist Center
North Adams, Massachusetts
2002
Southern Vermont Arts Center (solo exhibition)
Manchester, Vermont
Jenseits des Erfuellungshorizonts / Beyond the Fulfillment Horizon
(collaborative exhibition)
Offenes Haus Oberwart
Oberwart, Austria
2001
The Truth in Photography (two person show)
Tunnel City Gallery
North Adams, Massachusetts
Curator: Mary Nelson, Gallery Director and Curator
1999
CBAC Annual Exhibition
Washburn Historical Museum Washburn, Wisconsin
Curator: Linda Helander, Artist and Art Instructor, University of Wisconsin
1998-1999
Sivertson Gallery (gallery representation)
Bayfield, Wisconsin
1997
Tweed Contemporary Artists Series
Tweed Museum of Art
Duluth, Minnesota
Curators: Martin DeWitt, Director and Peter Spooner, Curator,
Tweed Museum of Art
1996
Excavations and Allegories
M.F.A. Exhibition (solo exhibition)
Alliance for the Varied Arts
Logan, Utah
Sneak Preview
Washington Galleries
Duluth, Minnesota
1995
Utah ’95: Crafts, Photography & Works on Paper
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Salt Lake City, Utah
Curator: David Ruben, Curator of 20th Century Art, Phoenix Art Museum
Room for Growth (community collaboration)
Tippetts Gallery
Logan, Utah
1994
Recent Works: Four Artists Tippetts Gallery
Logan, Utah
Pencil to Paper
One West Art Center
Fort Collins, Colorado
1993
Utah Women Artists’ Exhibition
Myra Powell Gallery
Ogden, Utah
Juror: Nancy Goldring, Artist and Associate Professor of Drawing, Montclair State College
1992
Urban Jungle: A Collaborative Art Project
Elston Fine Arts
New York, New York
1991
Small Works
Ward-Nasse Gallery
New York, New York
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