BIOGRAPHY
Based in her native Los Angeles, Laurie Raskin has exhibited her vividly colored abstract paintings and collages throughout the world. Trained as a designer, Raskin’s education at the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned a BFA and MFA, awakened in her the perceptions and skills to work in fine as well as applied art, and her ability to generate energetic, high-keyed imagery now finds her working pictorially. She has shown in galleries, museums and art fairs in Tokyo, Paris, Istanbul, New Delhi, Brussels and Miami as well as New Orleans and throughout California. In the last few years Raskin has licensed her art on such diverse applications as a fashion line in England, a vodka label for a Michigan-based micro distillery, and a designer carpet line resulting from a collaboration with Didden & Co in Brussels.
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Education:
BFA, MFA – California Institute of the Arts
Exhibitions
Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition 2022, 2023
Gora Gallery Montreal, Canada 2022
L & G Projects La Jolla, CA
Aura Art Hub Istanbul, Turkey 2022
Fisher Museum USC 2021
American University of Paris 2019
Gryder Gallery New Orleans, LA
Skidmore Contemporary Solo Exhibition Santa Monica, CA 2019
Gallerie 55 Bellechasse Solo Exhibition, Paris, France
Cube Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium 2017
Vogelsang Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
STATEMENT
I create visual compositions, both in the sense of assembling forms and working improvisationally. I have always been a hunter and gatherer, collecting material found from my vast collection of art books, used bookstores, vintage shops, and libraries, material including magazines, postcards, artworks, and photographic imagery as well from my own photographs and drawings. From this trove of visual information, I repurpose selected images, making photocopies and cutting and altering the images in order to create collage-like paintings (and collages themselves on occasion). I then paint, draw, and/or collage over these underlying structures. My works often reference memories of Los Angeles in the mid-sixties; more and more often, the artworks pay tribute, directly and indirectly, to my favorite 20th-century artists (and musicians).
