Laura Elkins
https://www.lauraelkins.com/
@LauraElkins
Education
1974 BS Arch Univerisity of Virginia
1973 Polytechnic Central London School of Environmental Studies London England
1970 Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar VA
Selected Publications
Summer in the City monograph (Enlightening Publishers, 2015)
Dreams and Secrets Finding Art in Argentina and Uruguay (Art Papers, May/June 2000)
Selected Public Art Installations
2010 CALL ME Pyramid Atlantic Silver Spring MD
2008 CALL ME Art on the Trail Gwynns Falls Trail Baltimore MD
2006 The Sky Is Falling Warehouse Gallery and 20 Ninth Street NE Washington DC
Selected Private Home+Public Art Projects
2005 Cajun Christmas Washington DC (project to benefit Louisiana artists after Hurricane Katrina)
2005 What Madness Washington DC
2002-3 Holiday Decs Washington DC
1993 Why There Are No Great Women Artists: The Children’s Room Natchitoches LA
Grants and Residencies
2020 Vermont Studio Center (Artist’s Grant) Johnson VT (Covid postponed)
2020 Escape to Create Residency Seaside FL
2015 Santa Fe Art Institute Immigration/Emigration Residency
2008 Forsyth Fellowship Residency Virginia Center for Creative Arts Amherst VA
1998 Mourning Becomes Electra Residency with The Builder’s Association Shreveport Regional Arts LA
1993 Why There Are No Great Women Artists: The Children's Room (funded by NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts) Natchitoches LA
Selected Exhibitions
2023 I Sing the Body Electric Jane's Room and PRZ New York NY
2023 You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows Empty Circle Brooklyn NY
2022 It’s a Colorful Life NAWA Flushing Bank Brooklyn NY
2022 Collar Works Flat Files Troy NY
2022 Drawing in All Mediums Site: Brooklyn (Ashton Cooper, curator)
2022 35th Anniversary Exhibition Space One Eleven Birmingham AL
2022 Upstate Art Weekend Open Studio Accord NY
2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition Cooper Gallery University of Dundee
2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge
2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition London
2021 HEROINEITY: Laura Elkins, Karen Finley, Katya Grokhovsky, Suzanne Lacy&Andrea Bowers, Cindy Sherman, Martha Wilson
Art Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University Willimantic
2018 America Selfie 39th Street Gallery Brentwood MD
2018 What Feminism Looks Like, a Nasty Women exhibition to benefit Planned Parenthood
2018 The One House Project Art Watching Collective Black Rock Center Germantown MD
2017 The One House Project Art Watch Collective Touchstone Gallery Washington DC
2017 She Works Hard for the Money Federal Project #2 topic.com (Joanna Lehan, curator)
2017 America Selfie Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College University of MS
2017 Portraits of US Montpelier Arts Center Laurel MD
2017 Film-Makers’ Coop Benefit Auction Next to Nothing New York NY (Coleen Fitzgibbon, curator)
2017 A Womb with a View Inner Space Jersey City NJ (the Vagilante, curator)
2016 United in Passion and Pride 39th Street Gallery Brentwood MD
2016 Starry Night DC Arts Center Washington DC (Thomas Drymon, curator)
2016 Summer in the City monograph signing/exhibition Square Books Oxford MS
2015 First, She's a Lady Tikhonova&Wintner Fine Art New York NY
2014 Studio Montclair Viewpoints 2014 Aljira Contemporary art Center Newark NJ (Sue Scott, curator)
2014 Fabrications: Constructing Female Identity Dixon Place New York NY (Yulia Tikhonova, curator)
2013 Stories We Tell Phoenix Gallery New York NY (Jessica Porter, curator)
2013 Homage to Michelle the Fridge Washington DC
2012 Packin' Heat Talkin' Dirty the Fridge Washington DC
2012 WBAI Art Auction Steven Kasher Gallery New York NY (Jim Wintner, curator)
2012 Empowered Marlboro Gallery Prince George's Community College (John Anderson, curator)
2012 Nineteen Ways of Looking at a Painting Porch Projects Washington DC
2012 King Me the Fridge Washington DC (Adam Dwight, curator)
2011 Eccentric Portraits Kleinert/James Arts Center Woodstock NY(N.Azara, S.Leonard Wolf, curators)
2011 DCwRAP Ground Floor Workshop Brooklyn NY
2011 White House Negligee the Fridge Washington DC
2010 PooL Art Fair New York NY (Marion Callis, curator)
2010 Unbearable Studio B Washington DC (Thomas Drymon, curator)
2010 MCF_A on Bond New York NY (Marion Callis, curator)
2010 Found on Facebook Manhattanville College Art Gallery Purchase NY (Charles McGill, curator)
2009 First Response Pen and Brush New York NY (Jerelle Kraus, curator)
2009 Selections from Hillary on Vacation Sweet Briar College Sweet Briar VA
2009 The First Ladies & Me Sixth & I Synagogue Washington DC
2009 Selections from HOMEwRAP sponsored by the ACLU Washington DC
2008 Learn Promote Defend Mason Murer Fine Art Atlanta GA
2008 Wrestling Angels ISCP Gallery Brooklyn NY (Marion Callis, curator)
2007 7th Krasnoyrsk Museum Biennale Krasnoyrsk, Siberia (Yulia Tikhonova, curator)
2006 Bearings: the Female Figure PS 122 New York NY (Allen Frame, curator)
2004 Transfiguration Akus Gallery ECSU Willimantic CT
2003 Warehouse Gallery Washington DC
2001 Signal 66 Washington DC
1998 Selections from MOM and POP Tower Gallery Shreveport LA
1996 Turner Art Center Centenary College Shreveport LA
1994 Domestic Dilemmas Space One Eleven Birmingham AL
1994 Tate Gallery University of Georgia Athens GA
1993 Mu-Terem Gallery Budapest Hungary (Allen Frame, curator)
1993 Delta Axis New York NY (Allen Frame, curator)
1986 The Fine Art of Making Money Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (Ivan Chermayeff, curator)
1985 Paul Robeson Cultural Center Pennsylvania State University PA
1984 Westbeth Gallery New York NY
1984 Abyssinian Baptist Church New York NY
1984 New York Academy of Arts New York NY
1980 Betty Parsons Gallery New York NY
Selected Press
2020 Escape to Create Seaside Times
2018 Rachel Cain Vibrantly colorful art addresses social issues The Sentinel January 10
2017 Steven Gagliano Laura Elkins Brings Evocative "America Selfie" Exhibit To UM Honors College HottyToddy.com June 28
2017 Andy Belt Artwork speaks to politics and American Culture The Oxford Eagle August 27
2017 Jacqueline Knirnschild Honors College Art Installation The Daily Mississippian August 23
2016 Mark Jenkins Spins on ‘The Starry Night,’ from critical to cheeky Washington Post May 20
2015 Jason T Borbet Price Ranges and Studio Images of 20 Contemporary Artists Forbes August 12
2015 Mark Jenkins Portraits of the Self as Other Washington Post January 16
2013 The Fridge Presents: Laura Elkins' Homage to Michelle East City Art January 9
2012 Joanna Castle Miller Ultra and Elkins: DC Faces at the Fridge We Love DC October 19
2012 Rebecca Baird-Remba Two Solo Shows Roll Call October 19
2012 Michael O'Sullivan Gallery Opening of the Week Washington Post October 5
2012 Brightest Young Things Fall/Winter Fine Art Guide October
2012 Eric Hope 19 Ways of Looking at a Painting at Porch Projects East City Art August 17
2012 KING ME: Studies in the Uncivilized Word 2 First Ladies Smooching Huffington Post March 1
2012 Joanna Castle Miller King Me: An Interview with Laura Elkins We Love DC March 21
2012 East City Art King Me: Studies in the Uncivilized World February
2011 Ben Valentine Laura Elkins at Ground Floor Workshop Contemporary Art Truck April 23
2011 Leah Taylor Laura Elkins:DCwRAP Flavorpill April 15
2011 Courtney Boyd Myers Laura Elkins DCwRAP@ Ground Floor Workshop courtbean April 15
2011 Megan Skidmore Brooklyn's Coolest Art Space: Laura Elkins at Ground Floor Workshop 4/15
2011 DCwRAP ArtCat April
2011 Thomas Drymon Q&A with a First Lady Thomas Drymon Selects January 25
2011 Maura Judkis White House Negligee TBD January 10
2011 Laura Elkins: White House Negligee @ The Fridge Brightest Young Things January 8
2011 Michael O'Sullivan White House Negligee: Gallery Opening of the Week Washington Post Jan 6
2011 Laura McKenzie White House Negligee The Washingtonian, January 6
2010 Artnet News Found on Facebook January 27
2009 Liisa Rajala Reframing Images of the First Ladies Roll Call, April 13
2009 Lavanya Ramanathan Style on the Go Washington Post, March 26
2008 ArtCal October
2008 Joel Withrow Flavorpill, October 16
2006 Charlie Finch World of Women Artnet April 4
2006 Cassandra Langer Smoke and Mirrors: Reevaluating the Body in Art Bearings exhibition