Laura Paulini - CV & Artist Statement
Laura Paulini - Artist Statement
I work in egg tempera, applying the paint drop-by-drop. My compositions begin with a plan that is then allowed to evolve. The execution, methodical and painstaking, employs measured movement with an implication of progress, balance, and unity. The overall pattern, intermittent and irregular even at its most complete, reveals a natural cycle, embodying decay as well as growth. It is this tension - between a desire for structure and the inevitability of change - which I hope to make visible in my abstractions.
Laura Paulini - CV
Born: 1963 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lives and works in Berkeley and Oakland, California.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2006Day Trips, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Crossing Over Water, Enso Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
2002 Suggestions from My Muse, Enso Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
Group Exhibitions
2010Fellowship Exhibition, KALA Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2009Chromatic Coda, Enso Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
Reconnection, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
Allegories of Control: Laura Paulini & Jill Sylvia, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
microwave: seven, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2008The Phenomena of Essence, Cerrito Contemporary Gallery, Oakland, CA
The One and The Many, Repetti Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA
2007Pattern, Pattern, Pattern, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
microwave: five, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2006Texture & Form: Rebecca Fox, Laura Paulini, & Pari Ram, Gensler, San Ramon, CA
Beyond Explanation: Automatic Abstraction, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, CA
Painting's Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
The White Album, KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Learned Behavior, Richmond Art Center Faculty Exhibition, Richmond, CA
2005Bay Area Annual, Pacifica Center for the Arts, Pacifica, CA
Gen Art Emerge, Warfield Building, San Francisco, CA
Paper Cuts (again), Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
Who Knew? Recent Art from the Bay Area, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Cream: From the Top, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
Bay Area Currents 2005, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Mills College MFA Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2004 Postcards from the Edge, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY
La Superette, New York, NY
We All Must Play Our Parts, Keys That Fit Gallery, Oakland, CA
2003 Maps to Abstraction, Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA
Personal Space, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recent Work on Paper, Olson Realty, Benicia, CA
Painters + Poets, Off the Preserve!, Napa, CA
2002 Bay Area V, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA
EDUCATION
2005MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA (painting)
2001 & 2002New York Studio School, New York, NY (drawing marathons)
1985BFA, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI (drawing)
AWARDS
2009Fellowship, KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2009New American Paintings, juried by Dominic Molon, MCA, Chicago, IL
2005Jay DeFeo Prize, Mills College MFA Exhibition, Oakland, CA
2005Juror’s Award, Bay Area Annual, Pacifica Center for the Arts, Pacifica, CA
Juror: Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California
2004 & 2005Graduate Teaching Assistantships, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2004Sarah Lewis Memorial Fellowship, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2004Graduate Research Grant, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1982, ‘83 & ‘84Merit scholarships, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
RESIDENCIES
2008Morris Graves Foundation Residency
2006 & 2007Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
PUBLIC ART
2003Blue Studio #3 & Blue Studio #4, Spinetta Family Law Center, Martinez, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Milwaukee Journal, “‘Reconnection’ at MIAD,” Sara Mulloy, November 18, 2009.
Artforum.com, Critics' Picks: San Francisco, "Laura Paulini and Jill Sylvia," Patricia Maloney, May, 2009.
Boston Globe, "Creating worlds all their own," Cate McQuaid, April 15, 2009.
ArtCal: The Zine, “On the Work of Laura Paulini,” Daniel Larkin, June 4, 2008.
The New Yorker, “microwave 5,” September 3 & 10, 2007.
The New York Times, “microwave, five,” Martha Schwendener, August 24, 2007.
Artweek, “Laura Paulini at Takada Gallery,” Jordan Essoe, May, 2006.
Artweek, “‘The White Album’ at Kala Art Institute,” David Buuck, May, 2006.
San Francisco Chronicle, “Nice surprises at this year’s ‘Emerge’ show for new talent,” Kenneth Baker,
Nov. 15, 2005.
Artweek, “Paper Cuts (again) at Fetterly Gallery,” Jordan Essoe, November, 2005.
artUS, “Cream,” Melissa E. Feldman, October/November, 2005.
Artweek, “Cream: From the Top at Arts Benicia,” Colin Berry, October 2005.
Artweek, “Bay Area Currents at the Oakland Art Gallery,” Lindsey Westbrook, July/August 2005.
The Walrus, Mills College Literary Journal, 2005
The San Francisco Chronicle, “Art for people’s sake,” Tony Cooper, Friday, October 17, 2003.
The Contra Costa Times, “Civic boosters seek thriving art scene,” Robert Taylor, June, 2003.
The North Bay Bohemian, “Critic’s Choice: Word Images: Off the Preserve!” Sara Bir, Jan. 2-8, 2003.
ZYZZYVA, Fall 2002, Vol. XVIII, No. 2.