Laurel Marx
Laurel Marx was born in the Bronx and received a BA from SUNY at Stony Brook, Magna Cum Lauda, an AAS from Parsons School of Design, and an MA (ABD), Hunter College. After living in Mallorca for three and a half years, a time that profoundly nurtured her creative vision and practice, she moved back to New York where she became a graphic designer. Marx returned to her art practice with new emergent work that is expressed solely through her own photographs, and by simplifying the visual material rather than adding to it.
Passionate about the continual interplay between shadow and light, artist Laurel Marx presents photographic works that capture these moments. Her photographs are punctuated by a subtle line in the foreground which defines a plane between the image and the viewer. The line introduces a deeper level of meaning to the piece. Marx describes, “Light transforms the ordinary, creating magic where - an instant before - there was none. What interests me is this alchemy of the evanescent moment.”
Her works can be found in the collections of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and Deià Archeological Museum.Website:
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