Laureen’s most recent work combines portraiture with historical American material culture to reflect on, reenvision and rewrite the history of a gender-centric society. Through processes of photography and printed textiles, her work contemplates and questions censorship and collective memory while examining sociopolitical discourses. Approaching art-making as subjective, not objective, Griffin, questions the meaning of female and/or feminine in society throughout history and within various cultural contexts. Laureen restructures imagery and ornamentation to reflect contemporary ideologies on gender.
Committed to her creative desires as an artist and to confronting her own subjectivity, she is intrigued with society’s ability to displace women and female identity. She attempts to create work that translates her personal perspective while also including biographical and historical truths. Currently, she is exploring how society represents and displaces gender queerness and femaleness vs. how we experience our own image of self. In Griffin’s artistic endeavors, works of art have been created as community projects, works on paper, sculpture, digitally manipulated photography and video.
Please contact the artist if you are interested in participating in the Gender Portraiture Project
EVENTS for 2010 –
Art-on-view…
queerArt? - AxD Gallery, located at 265 S. I0th Street (between Spruce and Locust Streets) in Philadelphia, PA. This is a group exhibition that examines the current state of queer sensibility in art today. Ranging from satiric to sublime, whimsical to erotic, queerArt? presents a stimulating mix of visual art in conjunction with Philadelphia Qfest 2010.
Exhibition opens July 7th through August 7th
Gallery Hours: Wed. through Sat., noon to 6 pm, and by appointment only Sun. through Tues.
See Change - Photographs from the Leeway Foundation - Presented by the Philadelphia Foundation’s Community Art Gallery, 1234 Market Street, Suite 1800. This exhibition features photographs from artists who have received funding from Leeway since 1993.
Exhibition opens April 28, 2010 through October 20, 2010
Gallery Hours: Mondays through Fridays 9:00am to 5:00pm
Workshop: Screen Printing Fiber Reactive Dye…
July 19 thru 23 - Fabric Printing with Dye:
Print your photographic and hand-drawn images with dye and dye resist. In this class, artists will learn to silkscreen fine detailed photographic images and drawings by using cold process fiber reactive dye pastes. We will focus on painting and precision silkscreening these fiber reactive dyes onto canvas and other cellulose based fabrics. Learn techniques for converting digital photographs into graphic images for photo stencils, and drawing directly onto the screen. (Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY) visit wsworkshop.org for more information.
Support the Artist
…Please visit my portraiture website - portraits.laureengriffin.com - and come to my open studio to see about having a portrait commissioned.
Ongoing
Gender Portraiture Project - Please view samples and contact me if you are interested in being a participant.
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