Vibrating with Intention
Laura Marie Blankenship’s kinetic canvases from her series, “The Goddess Within,” reflect an intuitive process rooted in her understanding of body, mind, and creativity.
ON VIEW on March 11th, 2021
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Vibrating with Intention
original paintings & giclee on canvas by Laura Marie Blankenship
exhibition view & details
Homage to Sylvette, et. al / 16" x 20" oil on canvas
We All Deserve the Light / 24" x 36" giclee on canvas
I am Supported, I Support Myself / 24" x 36" giclee on canvas
I Will Always Be My Own Muse / 16" x 19" oil on board
Sacred Body / 24" x 36" oil on canvas
In Love with Laughter and Lightness / 24" x 12" oil on canvas
Feather Lady (Me III), 16" x 19" oil on board
Willing to See / 24" x 36" oil on canvas
Working with Light / 24" x 36" oil on canvas
ARTIST STATEMENT
This series of work is a collection of self portraits over the years, a visual journey of my own transformation in self-perception: from self-loathing to embodied joy. My art has always been my primary tool of processing emotions and connecting to the world around me, though I haven’t always known that.
While as a child I usually felt odd, different, and rejected by my peers: like they spoke a language I didn’t understand. Fortunately, I could draw friends and characters into existence, paint my feelings, and create with anything (and everything), to interact with the world around me—no playmates required. Most of the time, that’s what I did. It was in my late teens and early 20s that I struggled the most with social relationships, my relationship to self, and my mental and physical health.
From childhood to adulthood, the wonderful thing was that in I didn’t have to change myself to be present with art. I showed up to the canvas in a variety of states, all of which were an attempt to escape my own self-loathing and discomfort in my own skin, and pounded away, scraped away—using knives and half-clean brushes and anything available, with an abused body, and a soul clinging by a thread—channelling everything I had into the artwork.
—Laura Marie Blankenship