My art path began as a painter of abstracted environments and my focus has transitioned to conceptual sculpture, which continues to explore this theme of the relationship between humans and our earth. Integrating the shapes, textures, and colors of architectural forms and nature into dynamic artwork, I invite the observer to delve more deeply into our mysterious world. I remain intrigued by indigenous totemic art, exploring its enduring impact and relevance even as these works collide. My work is rooted in mindfulness while creating miniature complex forms that are similar but not identical. Each individual shape is created to be singular and yet part of a collective.
Bio: Laura White Carpenter is a Providence-based artist who primarily works in hand-built porcelain sculpture and mixed media of found materials (metal, wood, “junk”). She is an published welder and manipulates her found steel also often adding hand built ceramics to her sculptures. She has lived on four continents and has been greatly influenced by the seemingly universal imperative of using decorative marks to indicate an object’s or place’s significance. Meanwhile, she has increasingly utilized techniques and supplies that have a lower impact upon the Earth. She has a degree in art therapy and occupational therapy and works daily at the intersection of the healing arts, encouraging hospitalized patients to utilize creative arts in their healing journeys. She has shown her work in galleries and exhibits throughout the United States and abroad, gaining recognition for her unique vision of the natural world in distinctive organic forms.