LAURISTON AVERY

Lauriston Avery (b. 1968 in Norwich, CT)

Formed from lo-fi utilitarian materials commonly sourced from hardware stores and interspersed with found ingredients ranging from faux fur to dust, Lauriston Avery’s works rely on the subtlety of white, muted hues, texture, light and shadow to express ghostly visages that are at once matter of fact and ethereal. Tightly compressed passages interwoven with structural and rhythmic line interplay over scarred psychic fields where super-sensory, celestial-like figures manifest in material substance and recede into abstraction.

For Avery, this practice can be interpreted as conjuring. Alternating between feverishly building and impulsively excavating, he champions intuition as an interface with the metaphysical. His obsessive process and transmutation of material on the picture plane summons that which is hidden within the tangible. Shimmering between the fantastical and the objective, Avery draws upon his attraction to the mystical and esoteric, where the laws governing what is visible are influenced by what is not.

Based in New York, Lauriston Avery studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1990.

Avery's selected solo exhibitions include Full Moon, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Deaf Bats Blind Shepards, Wildpalms, Düsseldorf, Germany; and To be Continued, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Magical Operations, Wildpalms, Düsseldorf, Germany; Walk the Line, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Zip City, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA; and Big Ringer, Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY; Come a Little Closer, DC Moore, NY; After the End, NADA, NY. His work was also featured at the Bridge Art Fair, Miami; NEXT Art Fair, Chicago; Untitled Art Fair, Miami; NADA, New York