LAURA WATT Place, Space, and Time
DAVID RICHARD GALLERY
ISBN: 978-1-955260-32-9
Front Cover: Laura Watt, Duomo, 2025, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 54 x 62”
Title Page: Laura Watt, Untitled , 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 70 x 44”
Laura Watt, Place, Space and Time, October 9 - November 25, 2025
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Capturing Place, Space, and Time Through Color and Pattern
The newest series of paintings by Laura Watt continues her trajectory the past 5 years of deft-ly combining pattern with rectilinear and curvilin-ear geometric forms, extreme vectors along with large swaths of bold color and gestural shapes. The result has been abstractions that span purely non-objective to highly referential (often aided by leading titles) compositions and often with optical and illusory overtones and psyche-delia.
Watt’s aesthetic shifts along this path have in-cluded her starting compositions with large pas-sages of stained paint, mostly dark, moody col-ors on canvas which provides the ground and creates distinct areas and unique points of entry to place the patterns, vectors, and resulting forms. Initially, Watt layered patterns to create overlays and a unique level of complexity in each composition. Now, she makes distinct, large scale geometric patterns and forms both the subject and focal point, for exam-ple, Memory of Florence and Duomo, below.
In these new paintings, Watt makes less of a critique about culture, environment, and politics during the covid and post-covid periods and supplants such statements by focusing more on picture-making as it relates to places, spaces and time, ergo, largely personal to the artist. Thus, we still see intent and a point of view which is not likely to ever change for the artist, but by providing context and derived from mem-ories and experiences Watt personalizes the painting with a narrative and creates a picture.
Particularly noteworthy in this new body of work is a new formal element that has emerged: thin wavy lines of color that create new shapes and forms— most seem to be of clouds or “air” as the ground. They provide layering and extend the illusion of spatial depth with translucent planes of shapes and color while also evoking movement and dynamism within the composi-tions, see Untitled.
In other paintings the thin horizontal lines are the ground while a large pattern shape is the dominant structure and subject - see, A Week In April and Container Ship.
By David Eichholtz
New York October 2025
Laura Watt Memory Of Florence , 2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
40 x 45”
Laura Watt Duomo , 2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas 54 x 62”
Laura Watt Dockside , 2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas 54 x 40”
A Week In April , 2024
Laura Watt
Acrylic and oil on canvas
30 x 40”
Laura Watt
Sunday Afternoon , 2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
62 x 42”
Laura Watt Container Ship , 2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas 54 x 62”
Laura Watt Untitled , 2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas 70 x 44”
Laura Watt Untitled (LLW24P82) , 2024
Oil on linen
30 x 20”
Laura Watt Untitled (LLW24P83) , 2024
Oil on linen
30 x 20”
Laura Watt Untitled (LLW24P84) , 2024
Oil on linen
20 x 30”
Laura Watt Spring Awakening , 2025
Oil on linen
54 x 40”
Laura Watt Fairy Tale , 2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas 44 x 70”
LAURA WATT
Laura Watt was born in Lancaster PA and currently lives and works in Garrison, NY. She studied at Bennington College and earned her MFA from Yale University. Watt”s paintings and drawings have been shown nationally and internationally in-cluding exhibitions at: MACA, Philadelph-ia; St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia; Phillips Museum at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster; State Museum of Pennsylvania; and Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster all in Pennsylvania; and Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield; New Haven Museum, New Ha-ven; and Stamford Museum, Stamford all in Connecticut. Watt has also exhibited at McKenzie Fine Art, Bridgette Mayer Gal-lery, Lesley Heller Workshop, Locks Gal-lery and numerous other galleries and in-stitutions. Her artworks are in the collec-tions of Lancaster Museum of Art and many private collections. Watt taught at Tyler School of Art for 5 years and pres-ently sits on the board of the Vermont Studio Center.
