About the work

My paintings draw on various structures and systems to produce a loose geometry with organic rhythms. I rely mainly on my hand-crafted tools such as stencils and over-sized rubber stamps to construct my multi-layered paintings. As part of my process, I study the natural and built environment; among my many references are architecture, aerial views of the landscape, and weather patterns. I also draw on my memories of childhood years in Japan: my paintings reflect the wabi-sabi aesthetic--a Japanese concept of beauty that includes simplicity, unpretentiousness and imperfection.

I allow for a natural, intuitive progression in my work. While drawing upon a vocabulary of rubber-stamped marks, I begin each painting without a preconceived notion of any final resolution, alternately concealing and revealing various elements through successive layers of acrylic paint and rice paper. The array of marks I have developed within the past few years provides a formal continuity throughout my body of work.

About the artist
Laura Fayer is a painter living and working in New York City. She is a recipient of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and has exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally, including solo shows at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in NYC and Rule Gallery in Denver. She was awarded grants from International Residencies for Artists and the Massachusetts Cultural Council for a fellowship to live and work for two months at Triangle France in Marseille. She has also been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and has travelled in South America, Asia and Africa.

Fayer’s work is in many corporate and public collections, including Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, MGM Mirage and the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Ritz Carltons in Atlanta and Shenzhen, China, and the US Embassies in Djibouti and Costa Rica. The W Hotel in San Francisco features Fayer’s “Weather Report” painting in their News Café, and Disney’s Saratoga Springs resort in Orlando commissioned her to create a large-scale nine-piece installation.

Fayer is a graduate of Harvard University in Visual and Environmental Studies and holds an MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York City.