Cathy McLaurin

My practice is interdisciplinary, employing whatever process is most appropriate for the concept - painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, video. I am especially interested in the performance form as transformation. My studio is wherever I am at a given moment.

I am interested in the uses and meanings connoted by materials and objects. I use common materials and objects –furniture/carpets, articles of clothing, sleeping and duffle bags, tape - in unusual ways, engaging the viewer’s senses of sight, smell, and touch. These situations work in a lingering way rather than an instant way, allowing for a philosophical pondering of meaning. Absurdity is employed to allow for contradictions in meaning. Common themes in my work are: temporality, memory, cultural displacement, impermanence. Global events, everyday encounters, the work of Francis Bacon, and animal movement breed images and ideas that I incorporate into my work.