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Artist Biography
Based in her native Los Angeles, Laurie Raskin has exhibited her vividly colored abstract paintings and collages throughout the world. Trained as a designer, Raskin’s education at the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned a BFA and MFA, awakened in her the perceptions and skills to work in fine as well as applied art, and her ability to generate energetic, high-keyed imagery now finds her working pictorially. She has shown in galleries, museums and art fairs in Tokyo, Paris, Istanbul, New Delhi, Brussels and Miami as well as New Orleans and throughout California. In the last few years Raskin has licensed her art on such diverse applications as a fashion line in England, a vodka label for a Michigan-based micro distillery, and a designer carpet line resulting from a collaboration with Didden & Co in Brussels. In 1984, she was one of the 12 artists chosen to create one of the official signature series posters for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. In 2024 her book Help! We Can't Stop Aging was released in the US.
Artist Statement
I create visual compositions, both in the sense of assembling forms and working improvisationally. I have always been a hunter and gatherer, collecting material found from my vast collection of art books, used bookstores, vintage shops, and libraries, material including magazines, postcards, artworks, and photographic imagery as well from my own photographs and drawings. From this trove of visual information, I repurpose selected images, making photocopies and cutting and altering the images in order to create collage-like paintings (and collages themselves on occasion). I then paint, draw, and/or collage over these underlying structures. My works often reference memories of Los Angeles in the mid-sixties; more and more often, the artworks pay tribute, directly and indirectly, to my favorite 20th-century artists (and musicians).
In my daily practice as an artist, I strive to be my authentic self. I am inspired by the visual world around me and by the beauty of the human spirit. I strive to find joy, and hopefuly that translates to my work. I am looking to reintroduce modernist vibrancy into a post-modernist age. More and more I am dedicating my focus to abstraction, especially as I want the forms and colors in my work to counteract the darkness and menace of today’s world. To achieve this radiant affirmation of life, I call on my professional background in graphic design, which has always strongly informed the way I see and the way I formulate artworks, especially my use of negative space. I also call upon my musical and dance training as well as my love for jazz – the last century’s musical soul – in conceiving as well as composing my images. Music, especially classic jazz, plays constantly in my studio.
CONTACT:
laurieraskin@me.com
310 600-6003
Copyright 2008-2024 All rights reserved Laurie Raskin
No part of any of the artworks can be photographed or copied without permission of the artist
BIO
Laurie Raskin
Born Los Angeles 1952
Education
California Institute Of The Arts 1981-1983 MFA
California Institute Of The Arts 1971-1983 BFA
Immaculate Heart College Los Angeles 1970-1971
CV
2024
Published book Help! We Cant Stop Aging Wit and Wisdom on the Art of Aging
Skidmore Contemporary Art Palm Desert, CA
Galeria Azure Madrid, Spain
Intersect Art Fair Palm Springs
L&G Projects La Jolla, CA
2023
Fall 2023 Artist Residency - American University of Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo - Japan - 22nd Japan International Exchange
Skidmore Contemporary Art- Santa Monica
L&G Projects La Jolla, CA
2022
Gora Gallery Montreal Canada
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 21st Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition
L & G Projects La Jolla California
Aura Art Hub Istanbul Turkey
Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica
2021
Winter Group Show Skidmore Contemporary Santa Monica CA
Winter Group Show - L& G Projects La Jolla CA
LA Art Association Group Show Curated by Peter Frank
Fisher Museum USC Curated by Edward Goldman Art At The End Of The Tunnel Fall 2021
Aura Art Hub Istanbul Turkey
Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica CA Summer Show
Amen Gryder Gallery New Orleans Summer Show
L & G Projects La Jolla California Spring Showcase
Hamptons Art Fair Arushi Arts
2020
Gryder Gallery New OrleansThe Effect of Color Fall 2020
The Eye On Green - Los AngelesProjected Project Curated By Manfred Muller
Projected Window Installation- Going Home Summer 2020 Curated by TZ Projects
That Layered Look Tufenkian Fine Arts Glendale California 2020
Curated by Peter Frank
2019
Solo Show American University of Paris Fine Arts Gallery Paris, France
Group Show Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica CA
LA Story Solo Show Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica CA
2018
Faces 4 Solo Show Gallerie 55 Bellechasse Paris, France
R Cline Arts 3 Woman Show Las Vegas Nevada
The Other Art Fair Los Angeles, CA
2017
Cube Art Fair Brussels, Belgium
Designer Carpet Line Didden and Co Brussels, Belgium
Vogelsang Gallery Group Show Brussels, Belgium
Saatchi Curated Collection Santa Monica, CA
2016
Vogelsang Gallery Group Show Brussels, Belgium
BKW Gallery Brussels, Belgium
Art Fair Wynwood Miami, Florida
2015
California Girls The Jealous Curator Helms Bakery Culver City CA
Pattern Play Saatchi Art Culver City CA
Vogelsang Gallery Brussels, Belgium
Art Fair Dubai United Arab Emirates
South Of The 405 Ottis Ben Maltz Gallery
Spring Collection Art On Fashion UK
Venice Art Walk Venice CA
The Art Studio Group Show
2014
Saatchi Corporate Offices
Group Show The Art Studio
Vita Art Center Group Show Ventura CA
2013
Sylvia White Gallery Ventura CA
Vita Art Center Group Show Ventura CA
Anonymous Vita Art Center Ventura CA
2012
Vita Art Center Group Show
2011
Women and Strength Vita Art Center Ventura CA
2011- Present
Fine Artist
1984 - 2011
Architectural Interior Designer
1974- 1984
Graphic Designer
One of 12 Artists chosen to design
The Official Signature Series Poster for the Summer Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles
Designed over 100 Murals for Stores
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