About

Beginning with aqueous pools of color, Laura Fayer slowly builds each painting using successive layers of media. Acrylic washes are overlayed with collaged rice paper markings inspired by ordinary objects and experiences; branches, shadows on sidewalks, pooled water and foliage inform her pattern-making, which she creates using hand-made printmaking tools.

Without a preconceived notion of how the paintings will resolve, Fayer allows her imagery to gradually emerge. By building successive layers of media, Fayer allows certain areas to recede beneath veils of rice paper, and embraces …