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Laura Schwambs body of work is comprised of image based artworks in video, animated neon, drawings, and oil painting. Intuitively bold she attacks any medium that best suits her project. Her work is influenced by psychological moments of her day to day. There is a common thread of physical and raw evidence of the human hand in all of her works. The focus is on the core of a psychological emotion that she strips bare to create a singular moment that becomes an objective presentation based on material and process. 

Laura Schwamb was born in Yonkers New York, and currently lives and works in Bushwick, Brooklyn New York. Initially spending a year in Indiana studying theology language and fine art at Taylor University she continued a focused art training for six months at Minneapolis College of Art and Design before moving to Detroits Center for Creative Studies where she spent the next three years immersed in intensely scheduled art training. From Detroit, Laura moved to New York City’s East Village where she balanced art making with design work. Rising through the ranks within the design world she is a well respected packaging designer and visiting lecturer/professor for Parsons school of Design and cultural ambassador for the london based design collective, Tomato. 

It is the counter intuitive corporate design environment where she works that provides the link to most of her content.

Initially starting with photography, Laura moved into video simultaneously creating deeply layered graphite drawings that lead her to exploring traditional techniques of oil painting leading into the development of animated neon and untraditional sculptures. All of which revert back to the same intent of her focus. Her intentions for her work are to make formal presentations that are universal and that act as a reflective space that can be felt by the viewer.

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