In the house with Laurel Sparks
In the house events features talks between out Executive Director Shannon Stratton and the Artists participating in the Summer School of Painting exhibition. All programming is free and open to the public but pre-registration is encouraged. Evening begins with cocktails at 7:30 with talks starting promptly at 8:00PM.
Laurel Sparks is a Brooklyn-based painter whose work embodies geometric symbol systems and the transmitting potential of pattern and materiality. Exhibitions include solo shows at Kate Werble Gallery and Knockdown Center, New York, and group shows at Cheim & Read, New York; the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York; Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; and deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts. Sparks’s work has been reviewed in publications such as the New Yorker, New York Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Two Coats of Paint, Modern Painters, New American Paintings, Art21 Magazine, Vogue México, and Art in America. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a MacDowell Fellowship; an Elizabeth Foundation Studio Immersion Project Fellowship at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop; a Fire Island Artist Residency; Residenza del Palmerino, Associazione Culturale Il, Palmerino, Italy; a Berkshire Taconic fellowship; an SMFA Alumni Traveling Fellowship; and an Elaine de Kooning Fellowship.
Laurel Sparks, Sol, 2021
Water-based paint, poured gesso, paper pulp, ash, glitter, holes, collage on woven canvas strips
Ox-Bow House is located at 137 Center Street, Douglas, MI and is wheelchair accessible. All programming is free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. COVID-19 policy: Masks are encouraged while inside Ox-Bow House, subject to change.