BIO

Laurel Marx has always been moved
by newness and wonder. Her constant reimagining of unexpected ways to compose one’s life has been an endless source of growth and excitement. In both her art and her life, it has been this inherent curiosity that has propelled movement forward.

Laurel’s creative expression has taken many forms, and the bridge she found between art and career was graphic design. In her independent practice she designed many collaborative projects in the public realm, with a focus on the environment, historic preservation, and water resources.

As an artist, she has had solo shows in Spain and the US: Light Needs Shadow, Casal de Cultura, Mallorca, Spain, and Shadow Becomes Light, 118 Elliot Gallery, Brattleboro, Vt., and has been in multiple curated group shows. 

Laurel co-founded 22 Wooster Gallery, curated First Look: Ten Young Artists from Today’s Cuba, under the auspices of the Center for Cuban Studies, funded by Artists Space and the Ford Foundation.

Her current body of work is an intuitive
combination of photography, with a graphic design sensibility of composition and balance. Her work is in public and private collections in Spain and the US.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION  

2023 The Lincoln Center, “2023 Contemporary Art Survey,” Fort Collins, CO + the City of Fort Collins
August 19 - October 7, 2023

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 The Masur Museum of Art, “60th Annual Juried
Competition,” Monroe, LA
Juror: Jovanna Venegas, Assistant Curator of
Contemporary Art, San Francisco MoMA

2022 Silvermine Gallery, New Caanan, CT
”72nd A•ONE Exhibit,” Award of Excellence

2022 Museu de Sóller, “Speaking of Balance,”
with Elena Yasykova Castillo, Mallorca, Spain
2021 Salon Zürcher, “11 Women of Spirit, Part 4,” NYC

2020 Carter Burden Gallery, “Artist’s Choice,” NYC

2020 Carter Burden Gallery, “Seeing Through,” NYC 

2019 Carter Burden Gallery, “Cold,” New York City

2019 El Barrio’s Artspace, PS109, “Abstract Visions,” New York City

2019 Equity Gallery, “Echoes,” New York City

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Gallery 118, “Shadow Becomes Light,” Vermont

2017 Museu de Sóller/Casal De Cultura,
“Light Needs Shadow,” Mallorca, Spain

COLLECTIONS

New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Estate of Kofi Annan

Selected work available at artsy.com

laurelmarx@gmail.com

All images printed on Hahnemühle Museum Etching Paper at Pictex Studio in Boston.

STATEMENT

I am always looking at shapes, juxtapositions, architecture, the sky throughout all its permutations of color and mood, watching bursts of magical moments everywhere. I am passionate about how light transforms the ordinary into something wondrous within seconds. Photography has become my tool to explore this experience, and shadow and light have become my materials for creating open ended stories.

I eliminate extraneous detail from the original image, aiming to reveal a larger mystery within the process
of reduction. As more is taken out, what remains is
more revealed.

In each piece, the line in the foreground is the last stage of the process. It introduces an additional plane which initiates a pause, providing a door through which the viewer can enter the narrative. It is also where I seek an ultimate point of balance before the work can be considered complete, the way a gyroscope can only balance when the axis is anchored.