Laura Parker

The artist

Practice and perspective

Laura Parker is a fine artist native to Atlanta, Georgia, and now living in the north Georgia mountains in the USA, as a contemporary mixed media fine artist working with a wide variety of materials. She creates abstract constructions on paper, canvas, wood, and glass.

Laura began her arts journey in childhood as a student of music, later evolving into live performance, songwriting/composing, and studio recording. Her constant desire to push and explore rhythmic expression led her to begin work as a 2-D fine artist in 2000. It was then she became a student of painting and drawing, studying under master artists in a non-traditional setting out of Atlanta, Georgia. In 2008 she relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she was juried into the renowned McGuffey Center for the Arts as a resident artist.

Her residencies include the Vermont Studio Center in 2009 and Proyecto’ace, Artist-in-Residence International Program in Argentina, 2016. She founded Abstract Road in 2018, which transformed her contemporary mixed media designs into hand knotted rugs, in partnership with Ujwal Carpets out of Nepal. Her rugs were introduced with Atlanta’s modern design showroom Switch Modern, (Atlanta/Manhattan). She continues to create contemporary mixed media pieces and transforms these designs into contemporary rug designs made of hand-dyed wool and silk. Laura has shown in galleries throughout the Southeast and has expanded private collections, internationally.

2000

Began her practice as a two-dimensional fine artist, studying painting and drawing in Atlanta.

2008

Relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia, and was juried into the McGuffey Center for the Arts as a resident artist.

2009

Artist residency, Vermont Studio Center.

2016

Artist-in-Residence International Program, Proyecto’ace, Argentina.

2018

Founded Abstract Road, creating hand-knotted rugs with Ujwal Carpets, Nepal.