lauraschwamb@gmail.com
From the Hematite Collection
Wine glass, glass ashtray, glass slab with steel razor blade
Acrylic lacquer and pigment
New York City 2003.
Hematite; a mineral, having important qualities in relation to the body and the mind. Used by native Americans
as a remedy for alcohol abuse, and mental focus. It increases the effectiveness of logical processes of the brain,
increasing mental function, improving memory, logic, creativity, mental dexterity and focus.
Laura Schwamb currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York She works in Video, Photography, Neon, and Drawing and has been shown at the Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York - Gen Arts Festival, New York - Gale Gates Gallery, Brooklyn - Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn - Creative Time, New York - Rhizome, New York The Tangent Gallery, Detroit - Learning to Love You More, Eindhoven, The Netherlands - The Center for Performance Research - 49B Studios during Bushwick Open Studios - Warehouse 1-10 Gallery, New Mexico. 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 Detroit’s Center for Creative Studies where she spent the next three years immersed in intensely scheduled art training. She documents personal situations and also creates work in search for peace, quiet, solitude.
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