Laura Fischman
Region: MFA Annual
In my painting practice I capture the unnoticed, imperfect, and
often fragmented topographies of everyday life. In this series,
I question what it is that we choose to see and notice. I paint
quiet, broken, utilitarian, and unspectacular objects that are at
once familiar and somehow forgotten. Spouts, gutters, and pipes
become oddly anthropomorphized when removed from their
original context. These small paintings are portraits—bodily in
their shape and construction and often functioning as the juncture
between inside and outside worlds. They are an exploration of the
inevitability of the passage of time, the tragic beauty of the banal,
and the abjection and authenticity of the everyday. I hope to create
a moment of pause and reflection, of revealing, acceptance, and
forgiveness, where the overlooked can be memorialized and can
elicit empathy.
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