Artist: Laura Erekson
Title: Pray for Rain
Medium: mixed medium on panel
Price: $10,000
Dimensions: 48 x 72 inches
Artist Statement: The earth was dry with drought and we were asked to pray, whether we believed in a God or not. Some reached to the heavens, some fell to the earth, some knelt over alters--and we prayed.
Artist Biography: Laura was born in Oakland, California and currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah. She received her BFA from Brigham Young University in drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture, as well as her MAT from George Mason University. Her printmaking and sculpture background heavily influence her current body of work. Using found objects and plants in her process, her paintings are rich in texture, leaving behind color and fragments of material from the actual objects and plants themselves.
Laura's work has been exhibited in Maryland, Virginia, Utah, New York City, and in the Smithsonian in Washington D.C..
