Love/Fear Animated Neon
Love and Fear Neon:
24" x 10"
Fear slowly dissolves into Love
then repeats the cycle
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
The Gift of Love uses appropriated image and sound and suggests the complications of love.
©2007 Color and sound. Single channel video.
Duration: 3.5 minutes.
©2007 Color and sound. Single channel video.
Duration: 3.5 minutes.
Under Heaven: Video still
Under Heaven. 2002
Under Heaven shows an authentic mental process of break down and vulnerability.
Color No sound. Single channel video.
Duration: 7 minutes. Color No sound.
From Wear to There: Video installation still
From Wear to There. 2002
From Wear to There shows three conservatively dressed women doing sit ups. They begin “put together” and slowly come apart physically and mentally
The sound track is a steady drone.
Three channel video projection. Each panel 8-10 feet wide. When all three panels are together they form an open triangle. The experience is for the viewer to be drawn into a kind of escalating madness of repetition, visual and sound.
Color and sound.Three channel video projection.
Duration: 7 minutes.
Ascension: Video still
Ascension. 2002
Ascension shows a man with another man on his back walking up a never ending flight of stairs. The two men; dual personalities of the same man, struggle with the weight of the day to day in an upward climb.
Color and sound. Single channel video.
Duration: A continuous loop.
Cycle: Video still
Cycle. 2002
Cycle concerns emotional states that lead to cyclical behavior. Indulgence, that leads to the frustration that eventually leads to resolve and then within time, starts over again. A self imposed destructive cycle that results from projected expectations and disappointments.
Black and White, no sound.Three channel video projection, each panel 3-4 ft. wide.
Duration: 3 minutes.
Incomplete Aum: Video still
Incomplete Aum. 2003
Incomplete Aum evokes the tension inherent in attempting to find a balance between the spiritual and physical.
Color and sound. Single channel video installation.
Unfinished drawings of the aum from the shoot scattered beneath the podium holding the monitor.
Duration: 50 minutes
Portrait Drawing Series
The drawings are a distillation of the psychological moments in her video work. Seeing the hand and the material in her work is an integral part of the energy of the overall portrait. She works the drawings methodically like the process of painting, heavily layering graphite to clay board producing a highly reflective surface, making the image illusive at certain angles.
Monday, September 13, 2004
From the Hematite Collection
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.
Fluorite Meditation Glasses
Fluorite Meditation Glasses.
2003 (from the Crystal Series)
A pair of safety glasses finished in simulation Fluorite.
According to Crystal Healers, fluorite is excellent for the advancement of the mind, it promotes greater concentration, and is used in meditation. It helps one to grasp higher, more abstract concepts. It facilitates inter dimensional communication.
Desarrollar
Desarrollar. 1994
Engraving on a braclet. A spanish verb that means continous growth. flux.
Bataille night light model
Bataille night light 1998
1/2 scale model of a night light.
An exposed light bulb hanging precariously from a wooden box. The box is engraved with lines from Georges Bataille’s Blue of Noon.
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Soon to be Posted
1. The Linda Portraits: ten 11" x 14" graphite on clayboard drawings
of Linda.
2. Bar Bathroom Portraits: eight 48" x 60" photographs taken in the same bar bathroom.
3. Neon bed side table lamps: In progress. aprox. 12" w x 7" h series of animated neon bed side lamps.
3. Contemplating Men: In progress. 23" x 35" graphite on clayboard drawings of people in contemplation.
of Linda.
2. Bar Bathroom Portraits: eight 48" x 60" photographs taken in the same bar bathroom.
3. Neon bed side table lamps: In progress. aprox. 12" w x 7" h series of animated neon bed side lamps.
3. Contemplating Men: In progress. 23" x 35" graphite on clayboard drawings of people in contemplation.
About Me
- Name: L. Schwamb
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
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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