Laura Bruce Explained

Laura Bruce
Birth Date:September 28, 1959
Birth Place:East Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation:Artist

Laura Bruce (born September 28, 1959) is an American contemporary artist living in Berlin.

Life

Bruce studied painting at The State University of New Paltz, New York and sculpture at The Slade School of Fine Art in London.[1] She has been visiting professor at the Exeter School of Art, The Slade School of Fine in London, the Berlin-Weissensee Kunsthochschule, and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden. Bruce has taught at the summer academies in Leipzig, Bremerhaven, Dresden, and at the Summer Workshops at the Neo Rauch Grafikstiftung.[2] She is an art educator at the Otto Hahn School in Berlin.

Laura Bruce is the lead singer in the concept band Dangerpony,[3] [4] who performed live in 2012 for the exhibition opening I Wish This Was A Song at the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in a program including Jan Köchermann & Doppelgenscher, Diamanda Galas, and Killl.[5]

Work

Her work explores drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, video[6] and performance. Large-scale black and white graphite drawings are an important part of her oeuvre. They are characterized by bold strokes, clear contrasts of black and white, and a distinctive representation of nature as power / phenomenon / myth and the human relationship to it.

Her drawing process of detailed mark making against smooth, large surfaces of complex gray tones. Her drawings have echoes of 19th century European Romantic painting and Hudson River School painting in the U.S. Bruce often works with historical references, which she approaches from a contemporary perspective, for instance in her installation Perpetual, a work of 79 drawings based on Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos, which she showed in full for the first time at Haus am Waldsee Museum in Berlin in 2018.[7]  Or her drawing / sound installation Goodbye is Half the Words You Know (2009-2013), where Bruce presents 10 portraits of classic country singers and reinterprets their songs with her band, Dangerpony. A part of this work was exhibited in 2016 in the exhibition Passion - Fan Behavior and Art (curated by Christoph Tannert) at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin[8] and the Ludwig Museum, Budapest. It was shown in full in the group exhibition I Wish This Was A Song[9] (curated by Stina Högkvist and Sabrina van der Ley) at the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in 2013.

Public collections

Bruce' works can be found in the collections of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Artothek and the Video-Forum),[10] the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, the Berlinische Galerie, the Collection of the City of Mainz[11] and the Vattenfall Foundation, Berlin.

Public commissions

Laura Bruce's large-format (10 x 6 m) site-specific commission, "De Septentrione ad Astrum" is a permanent mural realized in 2015 in Aschersleben in the Bestehornpark building and officially handed over to the city of Aschersleben.[12]

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions

YearExhibitionLocation
2019Inspiration Meisterwerk[20] Museum Villa Rot
2018Stadt-Land-Fluss[21] Museum Boppard, Kurfürstliche Burg
201815 Works on Paper[22] BEERS Gallery, London
2018Mind the Gap – Rohkunstbau XXIVSchloss Lieberose
2018Baustellenfest[23] Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2017Wir nennen es Arbeit[24] Galleria Opere Scelte, Turin
2017surf[25] Galerie Hartwich, Rügen
2017Striche, Kreise, Landschaft, Preise[26] Schau Fenster, Berlin
2016Passion. Fan Behavior and Art.Ludwig Museum Budapest
2015Wir kommen auf den Hund[27] Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
2015Passion. Fan Behavior and Art.Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin
2015PaperworldsMuseum der Phantasie, Buchheim
2015Du sollst dir kein Bild machen[28] Berliner Dome, Berlin
2014Criss-CrossKunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2013On Paper[29] Eigen & Art LAB, Berlin
2013Die Kunst der Zeichnung[30] Kunstverein Essenheim / Altes Rathaus Ingelheim
2012Kühllabor[31] regionale12, Steiermark
2012I Wish this Was a SongNorwegian Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
2012Drawing Biennale[32] Kunstverein Eislingen
2012Dies ist die Nacht, die tausend Tagen Trotz kann sagen[33] Guardini-Stiftung, Berlin
2011Outdoor Excursions[34] Burlington City Arts
2010Reading Room #4 – FUKT MAGAZINE[35] Nomas Foundation, Rome
2010km 500 2[36] Kunsthalle Mainz
2010Fokus Łódź Biennale[37] The International Artists' Museum, Łódź
2010Drawings II[38] Fahnemann Projects, Berlin
2010Balmoral BlendArp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
2009Hortus Apertus[39] Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
2008Menschen und OrteKunstverein Konstanz
2008City Beats[40] Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2007Drunk on Dreams[41] fruehsorge, Berlin
2004The Medium is the Tedium[42] The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2003ExpandVolkart Stiftung, Winterthur
2002Wachsernde Identitäten[43] Georg Kolbe Museum
2002Thin Skin[44] AXA Gallery, New York
2002Private AffairsKunsthaus Dresden

Publications

Catalogs

Press

Dangerpony

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Laura Bruce Independent Collectors. independent-collectors.com. en-US. 2019-05-16.
  2. Web site: Grafiktage Bilder. Grafikstiftung Neo Rauch. de-DE. 2019-05-16.
  3. Web site: dangerpony. 2018-10-20. de.
  4. Web site: Dangerpony - n.b.k. - Diskurs. 2018-10-21.
  5. Web site: I Wish This Was a Song - Announcements - e-flux. 2018-10-23. en.
  6. Web site: AUS EINER MÜCKE EINEN ELEFANTEN MACHEN - Valeska Hageney. 2018-10-21. de-DE.
  7. Web site: Baustellenfest - haus am waldsee. 2018-10-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023195949/https://www.hausamwaldsee.de/index.php/de/baustelle/baustellenfest.html. 2018-10-23. de-DE. dead.
  8. Web site: KB Passion. 2018-10-21. en-US.
  9. Web site: I Wish This Was A Song. Music in Contemporary Art. 2018-10-21. en.
  10. Web site: Laura Bruce - n.b.k. - Artothek. 2018-10-23.
  11. Web site: Landessammlung Rheinland Pfalz. https://web.archive.org/web/20181024035223/http://archiv.balmoral.de/downloads/100712_flyer_balmoral-blend.pdf. 2018-10-24. 2018-10-23. dead.
  12. Web site: Stadt Aschersleben - älteste Stadt Sachsen-Anhalts, Lernen, Arbeiten und Wohlfühlen: Künstlerisches Werk 2015. 2018-10-21. de.
  13. Web site: Losito Kunstpreis 2012. 2018-10-23.
  14. Web site: Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. 2018-10-23.
  15. Web site:
    1. 25 Galerie Rompone
    . 2018-10-23. Martina Höfflin - Brauchbarkeit.
  16. Web site: BRUCE SILL kunsthaus [projektraum] erfurt]. 2018-10-23. de-DE.
  17. Web site: Laura Bruce – Whippersnapper Galerie Fahnemann. jonas. de-DE. 2019-05-16.
  18. Web site: Fahnemann Projects ~ Laura Bruce. 2018-10-23. daphi. de.
  19. Web site: Galerie Ulrike Buschlinger Past and Future Exhibitions on artist-info. 2018-10-23. en.
  20. Web site: Info zur Ausstellung Inspiration Meisterwerk. 2019-01-24. Villa Rot. de-DE. 2019-05-16.
  21. Web site: Stadt-Land-Fluss – Museum Boppard. 2018-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023200025/http://museum-boppard.de/veranstaltungen/event/stadt-land-fluss/. 2018-10-23. de-DE. dead.
  22. Web site: BEERS London. 2018-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023195925/http://www.beerslondon.com/exhibitions/15-works-on-paper. 2018-10-23. dead.
  23. Web site: Baustellenfest – haus am waldsee. 2018-10-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023195949/https://www.hausamwaldsee.de/index.php/de/baustelle/baustellenfest.html. 2018-10-23. de-DE. dead.
  24. Web site: Exhibitions – OPERE SCELTE. 2018-10-23. it-IT.
  25. Web site: surf Galerie Hartwich. 2018-10-23. de-DE.
  26. Web site: Schau Fenster – Das Arty. 2018-10-23. de-DE.
  27. Web site: Wir kommen auf den Hund!. 2018-10-23. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. de.
  28. Web site: Künstler Du sollst dir kein Bild machenDu sollst dir kein Bild machen. 2018-10-23. de-DE.
  29. Web site: Galerie EIGEN+ART. 2018-10-23.
  30. Web site: Die Kunst der Zeichnung – The Art of Drawing – Essenheimer Kunstverein. 2018-10-23. de-DE.
  31. Web site: eop – emergence of projects Projekt Kühllabor. 2018-10-23.
  32. Web site: 5. biennale der zeichnung – Kunstverein Eislingen. 2018-10-23. de.
  33. Web site: CundK Galerie Laura Bruce, Sven Drühl, Michael R. Fischer, Niels Sievers, Rebecca Thomas"Dies ist die Nacht, die tausend Tagen Trotz kann sagen"Painting, Drawing and SculptureAugust 2012. 2018-10-23. en-US.
  34. Web site: Outdoor Excursions Burlington City Arts. 2018-10-23. en.
  35. Web site: Reading Room #4 FUKT MAGAZINE Nomas Foundation. 2018-10-23.
  36. Web site: Kunsthalle Mainz. 2018-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023195834/http://balmoral.kulturstiftung-rlp.de/plaintext/downloads/km_500_3_einladung.pdf. 2018-10-23. dead.
  37. Web site: FOKUS ŁÓDŹ BIENNALE 2010 – Program – archiwum Łódź-Art. 2018-10-23. Maciej Jabłoński.
  38. Web site: Fahnemann Projects ~ Drawings II. 2018-10-23. daphi. de.
  39. Web site: Hortus conclusus/apertus 2. Oktober 2009. 2018-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023195752/http://archiv.balmoral.de/presse/pressetexte/2009/hortus-conclusus-apertus-02102009.html. 2018-10-23. Danièle Perrier, KHS Balmoral Bad Ems. dead.
  40. Web site: CB + LE: City Beats / シティ･ビーツ. 2018-10-23. ja.
  41. Web site: fruehsorge contemporary drawings. 2018-10-23.
  42. Web site: The Medium Is Tedium – Collective. 2018-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023200222/https://collective.graphicalhouse.co.uk/programme/2004-the-medium-is-tedium. 2018-10-23. en-GB. dead.
  43. Web site: Wächserne Identitäten – Figürliche Wachsplastik am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts Georg Kolbe Museum. 2018-10-23.
  44. Web site: Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures – Exhibitions – Independent Curators International. 2018-10-23. en.
  45. Web site: links Galerie Rompone. 2018-10-23. Martina Höfflin – Brauchbarkeit.
  46. Web site: Kunst aus dem Osten der Republik (2). Ina Zeuch. 2018-10-23. Ina Zeuch. 2016-02-08.
  47. Web site: Galerie Parterre Ausstellungen Moment und Dauer. 2018-10-23.
  48. Web site: Auf den Hund gekommen: Neue Schau über Vierbeiner im Kupferstichkabinett. 2018-10-23. de.
  49. Web site: KB PASSION – FAN-VERHALTEN UND KUNST. 2018-10-23. de-DE.
  50. Web site: Worldwide Books: I WISH THIS WAS A SONG: MUSIC IN CONTEMPORARY ART. (9788281540682) Ed. by Ingvild Krogvig.. 2018-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023200031/http://www.worldwide-artbooks.com/wwb_title.php?titleno=35226. 2018-10-23. dead.
  51. Web site: Laura Bruce – Whippersnapper!!. 2018-10-23.
  52. Web site: Laura Bruce – Landowners. 2018-10-23. 6 September 2006.
  53. Web site: Kataloge Georg Kolbe Museum. 2018-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023195854/https://www.georg-kolbe-museum.de/service/publikationen/. 2018-10-23. dead.
  54. Book: Thin Skin The Fickle Nature Of Bubbles, Spheres, And Inflatable Structures ARTBOOK 9780916365646. 2018-10-23.
  55. Web site: Private Affairs. 2018-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023200148/https://transversal.at/transversal/pdf/journal-text/898/. 2018-10-23. dead.
  56. Web site: Portfolio by Laura Bruce - BOMB Magazine. bombmagazine.org. 2019-05-16.
  57. Web site: Fukt #6. 2018-10-23. en-US.
  58. Web site: Fukt #5. 2018-10-23. en-US.
  59. Web site: F.A.Z.-Archiv: Suche. 2018-10-23. de.
  60. Web site: KGB-Sounds Kommunale Galerien Berlin. 2018-10-23. de-DE.
  61. Web site: Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin. 2018-10-23.
  62. Web site: Museum Publicity. 2018-10-23. en.
  63. Web site: Home. 2018-10-23. de-DE.
  64. Web site: Carnival Within UferHallen Berlin-Wedding Berlin. 2018-10-23. it.

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