Laura Nugent

A Gallery Feature

Laura Nugent

Published: Sunday, December 9, 2007

Laura Nugent is a full time painter living in Merriam, Kansas. Locally, you may see and purchase her work at ARTichokes www.artichokeskc.com and Mike Savage’s gallery, SAV-ART, www.sav-art.com. She shows and sells her work at regional art fairs and festivals. An updated schedule of fairs and exhibits may always be found at www.lauranugent.com. Laura has galleries carrying her work in Chicago, Illinois and Auburn, Alabama.

Laura will have solo exhibitions at the Kansas City Artists Coalition in March of 2008 and the Central Exchange in May and June of 2008. She also participates in the Kansas City Business Committee for the Arts Now Showing Program. To exhibit Laura’s work at your business, please contact Kelly Seward at the Metro Arts Council: 816.221.1777.

Laura received her BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Artist Statement:

I like to make paintings that offer an immediately recognizable image and pattern. Over time, I want those paintings to slowly reveal a depth of both narrative and process, to ask questions and remain compelling. My paintings are meant to be decorative and give pleasure. I delight in the process of making them and the ability I have to work at it as a full time profession.

Typically, a painting takes several months from start to finish. I believe in finding a simple solution to a work. It is finished when I can live with the decisions I made in its creation, and not feel disconcerted when I see it perched somewhere in my studio.

Painting for me is a necessity. It is how I connect to the past and find community in the present.

--Laura Nugent
2007