Laura Fayer is an abstract painter living and working in New York City. “My work is influenced by living in Japan as a small child and experiencing the Japanese tradition of wabi-sabi, which is defined by impermanence, imperfection, visual economy and intimacy. As a painter, I participate in a delicate balancing act between creating something complete and ordered and leaving just enough imbalance and disorder to allow for movement, rhythm, and ambiguity.” Fayer is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and a grant recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She has exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally. "My paintings take landscape and nature as their subject and as a point of departure. I embrace the imperfections and the accidental relationships that evolve among multiple layers of paint and graphic marks. I start with pools of color that blend and disperse into the canvas. These large areas are then layered with collaged printed marks from a vocabulary of hand-made printmaking tools I developed from my impressions of ordinary objects and experiences, such as a pattern formed on a sidewalk from an afternoon shadow, swaying branches or rippling on the surface of a lake." --Laura Fayer