images
wood, foam, plaster, paper clay, resin, leather, oil,
body: 34x46x5 inches
tassels: 31 inches
wood, foam, paperclay, oil, resin
16x24x6.5 inches
colored pencil and marker on paper
11×9.5 inches
wood, foam, paperclay, plaster, acrylic, oil, resin
42x30x4 inches
colored pencil on paper
9×11.5 inches
from Fuzzy Forces, 2020
profile
Laura Lit (b. Dallas, Texas, 1979) is an artist living and working in Austin, Texas. She employs drawing, painting, carpentry, and material technologies to fabricate sculptures that seem like sentient geometries, simultaneously form and fellow life.
Lit begins each piece with a drawing, and will work alone, without assistance or computers, for months or even years building the final sculpture layer-by-layer. The finished sculptures are as beings: skeletons of wood, muscle of foam, tissue of clay. Their skins are painted with acrylic and oil, and adorned with feather-feelers of plastic or scales of dyed resin.
Lit received a BFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. She studied special Effects Makeup for Film and Television at Vancouver Film School. In her twenties she worked in film special effects and architectural restoration. She apprenticed with a designer and artificer of artificial skin and prosthetics. In 2016, she dedicated herself to art full time, and had a solo painting show at Women and their Work (2017). Lit designed for a building wrap for Hermes (2021). She recently showed her post-pandemic sculptural work in Glossolalia, with Matt Steinke at Gaddis Geeslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University (2023).
October 2024, Lit will show at Southway Studio in Marseilles, France.
exhibitions and fairs with Northern–Southern
Others (2023)
☯ (2023)
NADA Miami (2022)
Far In (2021)
Fuzzy Forces (2020)
Likesness (2019)
After Images (2018)
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To request a pdf of available works email hello@northern-southern.com.
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Laura Lit’s instagram and website.
