| Artist | Laura Barth | Resides | United States |
| Website | barth-vader.com | Medium | Digital Photography Photo manipulation Linocut printing Charcoal Graphite Watercolor Collage |
| Representing Gallery | Calendula Gallery St. Paul, MN. USA | [email protected] | |
| Follow the Artist | Themes | Symbolism Folklore Divine feminine Wild Woman Mythology Nature Spirituality Ecological Revolution Esotericism |
About the artist
Laura Barth is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist based in the mountains of North Carolina, United States. Primary media include analog and experimental photography, graphite, charcoal, watercolor, and linocut prints. Laura currently exhibits her work at Calendula gallery in St. Paul and has had work awarded, published, and exhibited across the country. She currently serves as the Digital Media Consultant for Analog Forever Magazine.
Her creative process for her altered photos typically begins with finding an image associated with a significant personal memory on her old cell phones, cameras, or film and using that image to create an instant photo. She then manipulates the resulting photo through the emulsion lift process, and frequently integrates them with other media such as graphite, watercolor, and/or botanical samples. The resulting pieces often become vague, distorted, and/or transformed during the process, often adding new sensations, feelings, or abstractions. What was originally an old memory associated with a specific situation has become something new and taken on new meaning.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Recurring themes in Laura Barth’s work are profound connections with nature, personal folklore and mythology, our inner emotional lives, spirituality and mysticism, exploring the unknowable, and exploring the presence or absence of “god” or god-like figures.
Press
Laura Barth works has been featured in notable magazines including The Hand Magazine, Bait/Switch, Photographers of Ashe County, Aeonian Magazine, Dab Art Quarterly.
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition name | Gallery |
| June 2024 | Group exhibition: “When Photography Meets Collage” | New Orleans Photo Alliance New Orleans, USA |
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
When Photography Meets Collage, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA. United States
43rd Annual Blue Ridge Overview, Wilkes Art Gallery, North Wilkesboro, NC. United States (Best in Show)
Annual Members Showcase, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. United States (Best in Show)
2023
The Best of the Blue Ridge Fine Art Juried Competition and Exhibition, The Gallery at Ashe Arts Center, West Jefferson, NC. United States
Strange, Weird Unique, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC. United States
2023 NC Artists Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, Raleigh, NC. United States
The Curated Fridge (Summer 2023), CultureLab LIC (at Praxall Gallery), Long Island City, NY. United States
The Still(ed) Life: Celebrating Handmade Photo Art, Light Art Space, Silver City NM. United States
Diptych Open Theme, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. United States
2022
Empty Places : Abandoned Spaces, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. United States
Narrative – Figments and Fragments, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. United States
2021
40th Annual Blue Ridge Overview, Wilkes Art Gallery, North Wilkesboro, NC. United States(First Place)
2020
Forsaken, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC. United States
Instant, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC. United States
39th Annual Blue Ridge Overview, Wilkes Art Gallery, North Wilkesboro, NC. United States (First Place)
2018
Click_Bait, Dab Art Quarterly, Ventura, CA. United States
Revived with Light: An Exploration of Expired Photographic Media, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. United States
Color Space: Contemporary Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR. United States
Vibrant, N.Y. Photo Curator (online; Honorable Mention)
Relationship, L.A. Photo Curator (online; Second Place)
