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About the work
Fayer's paintings draw on various structures and systems to produce a loose geometry with organic rhythms. She relies mainly on her hand-crafted tools such as stencils and over-sized rubber stamps to construct her multi-layered paintings. As part of her process, she studies the natural and built environment; among her many references are architecture, aerial views of the landscape and language. Her attention to the wabi sabi aesthetic-- a Japanese concept of beauty that includes simplicity, unpretentiousness and imperfection-- reflects her experience of living in Japan for a few years as a child and young teenager.
Fayer allows for a natural, intuitive progression in her work. While she draws upon a vocabulary of her own rubber-stamped marks developed from her drawings, she begins 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 she has developed within the past few years provides a formal continuity throughout her 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 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 in NH, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha.
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 Embassy in Costa Rica. The W Hotel in San Francisco features Fayer’s “Weather Report” painting in their News Café, and Disney’s newest 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.
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