Laura Moriarty

A native of New York’s Hudson River Valley, Laura Moriarty makes 3-dimensional encaustic objects whose forms, colors, textures and patterns result from processes similar to those that shape and reshape the earth. Laura's work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2021, her solo exhibition, Resurfacing, was featured at the Hunterdon Art Museum in New Jersey. 

Website: www.lauramoriarty.com

Instagram: @lauramoriartyrocks

Classes with Laura Moriarty

Process & Wonder

This workshop celebrates the curious wonder of naturalists, and will demonstrate how Laura creates sculptural elements that mimic geological formations. Building up paint in layers, and then liberating, excavating, and molding the paint into sculptural forms that look like wild geodes dug from the center of the earth, scientific models or perhaps artifacts whose strata and embedded fragments reveal a history, just as the layers of the earth itself tell a story of climate shifts, planetary events and cataclysmic disruptions.