LAURA BATTLE

B. 1957 Cairo, Egypt

Laura Battle received her BFA at Rhode Island School of Design, Painting and her MFA at the Yale School of Art, Painting. Her work involves rigorous mapping out of a personal cosmogony. Her use of an intricate geometry describes a world of heightened order and emotive energy. With her large-scale etchings, she embraces the viewer with a calming yet activated landscape of the mind.

Battle's work has been exhibited at Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York; The American Academy of Arts and Letters; Bard College, Annandale, NY; Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA; Opus 40 Art Center, Saugerties, NY; Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Rafius Fane Gallery, Boston, MA; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; Magenta Plains Gallery, New York, NY; Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Byrdcliffe Kleinert Gallery, Woodstock, NY; NYU Steinhardt Gallery, New York, NY; and Atelier du Caire, Cairo, Eygpt.

She is in the collection of Vassar College; American Academy of Arts and Letters; Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Library of Congress; NYU Langone Art Program; American Embassy in Kerzakstan; American Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan; American Embassy in Bulgaria; American Embassy in Jeddah; The Progressive Corporation; and Metropolitan Transit Authority, Arts in Transit, Burnside Avenue. She has been a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts for Transit MTA New York, National Academy Museum, and American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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