Laura Malone explores beauty inside intimate human experience, focusing on embodiment, mood, and gestures of body language in her paintings, exemplified by Camille with Veil. Her practice treats the body as a source of wisdom and a resource for resilience, and therapeutic work is intended to energize rather than deplete her art-making. Childhood impressions of a river and an emotionally dry family inform recurring inside/outside themes in her imagery. Malone trained academically with a BA from Oberlin (Creative Writing) and an MA from San Diego State University (Educational Technology) and integrates those influences into her layered work.
This practice is about listening to the body as a source of wisdom and engaging it as a resource for resilience and responsibility. I needed a way to make money that would add energy to my art practice rather than depleting me. Working with others keeps my heart open and informs my artwork subconsciously,
I remember the first time I saw a river, I was eight years old and with my family on a visit to the Bay Area, which became a yearly summer ritual. I would announce every time that this was where I was going to live when I grew up. The emotional climate of my academic family was also dry and I think my child's mind didn't separate outside and inside-a theme that shows up repeatedly in my work,
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