Laura Lee Brady

Laura Lee Brady is a Rhode Island based artist and educator. She graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education. Laura Lee is a former Providence Public Schools art teacher and is currently a museum docent at the RISD Museum and a mother to a creative four-year old daughter..

My work explores the many facets of womanhood and the internal and external pressures that shape that experience. Through a variety of media, including paint, sculpture, and silkscreen, I explore the familial relationships, the systemic constraints, and the inner conflicts that strain and form a woman as an individual and a member of society. I emphasize the materiality of paint by employing a broad variety of applications such as thin washes, thick brushstrokes, wiping and smearing, which produces a tension between the foreground and background as figures blend with their surroundings in places and boldly break out in others. I depict the figure using gestural marks which suggest rather than describe, distorting faces and bodies to effect an emotional and psychological impact. Bodies are tangled, entwined, and dissolve into each other, alternatively pushing and pulling each other to reflect the complicated nature of a woman’s urge to assert her self while balancing her attachment to others. Through the motif of female boxers, I approach the convergence of female rage, aggression, and intimacy through an expressive, improvisational approach which elevates process and discovery.