Fables, or cautionary tales, with narrative elements embedded in labyrinthian corridors of color, shape, and form can be found in artist Laurie Fader’s recent work. Macabre humor embodies the forces of our salvation from environmental destruction, while dreamy alternative realities engage us in her complex spirited paintings.
Fader has been awarded two Great Meadows Foundation awards, a Pollock-Krasner grant, an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant and a Helen Winternitz Award for excellence in painting from Yale School of Art. She has attended residencies including the Jentel Foundation, Willapa Bay AIR, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the American Academy in Rome, Scuola Grafica di Venezia, The International School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in Italy, the Alfred & Trafford Klotz Residency, and a painting fellowship in Haiti. She will be spending a year painting in New Mexico on a fellowship from the RAIR Foundation.
Her recent exhibitions include those at the Lockwood Gallery in Kingston, NY, Susan Eley Gallery in Hudson, NY; The Painting Center in Chelsea, Cody Gallery at Marymount University in Arlington, VA; Radiator Gallery in Long Island City, NY; and Carter Burden Gallery and First St Gallery in Chelsea, NY.
Fader has a B.S. from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art. She held teaching positions at Pratt Institute, MICA, Goucher College, and was chair and co-founder of The Kentucky College of Art and Design at Spalding University in Louisville, where she currently resides as a full-time practicing artist.
While at MacDowell, she worked or four large oil paintings and three smaller works on yupo that were surreal imagined landscapes, or parallel worlds to our current environmental and political crisis.
