Laurel e l'età dell'innocenza

"Sono per lo più una larga scala di un pittore astratto, ma ho lavorato molto duramente per produrre un diverso tipo di spettacolo che incorpora ritrattistica tradizionale, mentre l'umanizzazione con l'emozione del mio lavoro. Lo scopo è quello di trovare la contrapposizione tra l'innocenza dei nostri giovani e la quiete di una età adulta dove la vita ci ha gettato le curve come la perdita o il dolore e le memorie che vanno con esso " 
Laurel presenta così la sua nuova collezione che dal 17 al 21 novembre presso la Menier Gallery di Londra, per la prima volta, espone una serie di ritratti dove raccontano l'innocenza fin dalla sua più giovane età. Di seguito trovate l'articolo tratto dal sito omonimo inglese della menier gallery.co.uk dove in dettaglio viene annunciata l'esposizione della bionda ex thelword.

[...]The Innocents Laurel Holloman Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 November For her first solo exhibition in London, “The Innocents”, the painter Laurel Holloman takes us on an emotional journey and an exploration of how life changes us, as we age."The Innocents" is a portraiture exhibition of women and children with subjects from 18 months to late 80s. The artist's goal is to photograph, then paint, early childhood and innocence, i.e. life without the heartbreak to the challenges of adulthood, and then contrasts it with more mature portraits. Also the show explores the female nude and the vulnerability of women in their late 30s and 40s.At these ages there is more of a history in the faces and in the body language of the subjects. The show will have certain innocence and also a certain emotional heaviness with more of the middle aged subjects, and then certain lightness with the older subjects. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles (U.S.A.). After an acclaimed debut with her New York studio collection, TriBeCa in 2011, Laurel Holloman has had four international solo shows. Coeur Libre, exhibited in Paris in 2012. This show was followed by Free Falling during the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her third solo show, All The World Inside, took place in Berlin in Spring 2013.In summer 2013, her painting Swell was picked for the group show, Nell’Acqua Capisco at the Venice Art Biennale and was chosen for the official catalogue. The Fifth Element was held in Paris in July 2014.In October 2014, the artist was invited at the International Contemporary Art Biennale in Buenos Aires (Argentina). The painting The Reach was awarded by the First prize of the Biennale in the paintings category and Laurel won the Banco Ciudad Award for the Best Work in all categories. For her fifth solo show now in London, Laurel states "I am mostly a large-scale abstract painter, but I have been working very hard to produce a different kind of show that incorporates traditional portraiture while humanizing it with the emotion of my work. The purpose is to find the juxtaposition between the innocence of our youth and the stillness of adulthood where life has thrown us curves such as loss or grief and the memories that go with it"