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Laura Clay’s series offer a window into identity in motion—each collection capturing a distinct moment, struggle, or shared experience. From meditations on heritage to reflections on travel and transformation, her work weaves together material, memory, and meaning. Explore the stories behind each body of work.
Compartment
An exploration into the spaces we hold within ourselves, between cultures, memories, and materials. This series reflects Laura Clay’s bicultural identity, weaving together organic and geometric forms as metaphors for Mexico and the United States. Through layering, contrast, and balance, Compartment suggests that identity is not singular but made of interconnected rooms—each one carrying history, heritage, and lived experience. At once intimate and expansive, the series asks us to consider how we organize memory and meaning, and how art can give form to the unseen architecture of the self.
Fables within the Foliage
This series continues Laura Clay's exploration of bicultural identity through material, memory, and narrative. In this series, the conversation expands to include the quiet library of texts that have shaped her inner world. Each painting, titled after a literary influence, translates those echoes into a visual language of soil, pigment, and shadow. Laura’s own story is rooted in two places, and her layered surfaces mirror that duality, where language, landscape, and lineage intertwine. Using earthen materials on linen and wood, she builds and erodes her compositions like memory itself, revealing how the stories we inherit take form in both the land and within us.
Before It Fades
Discover the impermanence of memory and the quiet traces that remain as moments slip into the past. Each work holds a sense of transition—where presence gives way to absence, and what is left behind becomes just as meaningful as what was once seen. Through layered gradients and textural fields, Laura Clay captures this fleeting quality, balancing depth and subtlety to reflect how memory shifts over time. The series invites reflection on what endures, what fades, and how the passage of time shapes both identity and belonging.
Windows of the World
Explore memory and the destinations that shape identity. Each painting reflects Laura Clay’s experiences traveling across cultures, capturing the balance between rootedness and transition. Inspired by her travels to places like Mexico, Italy, and Spain, Laura Clay incorporates locally sourced pigments and natural materials, allowing each piece to embody the essence of its origin. As the series expands, new works will be titled after the locations where these materials were gathered, deepening the connection between place, and memory and exploring how travel transforms identity.
Gradient Horizon
This series is the preface to Windows of the World—abstract exploration of color, light, and identity, refined over time. Each piece functions as a geometric color study, using gradient beams to reflect how identity shifts over time, or even within a single day. These works are less about place and more about internal landscapes, quiet, intentional, and open to interpretation. With minimal texture and softened edges, the series invites slow looking and personal reflection.
La Loteria
Reimagine the traditional Mexican game through a deeply personal lens. Drawing on the original iconography, each painting becomes a reinterpretation, blending cultural symbolism with Laura’s own lived experience. Rather than replicating the imagery, Laura uses color, form, and abstraction to explore what these symbols mean across generations and identities. The result is a body of work that balances play and power, memory and modernity.
Dia de los Muertos
The In Bloom series explores Día de los Muertos with a more illustrative approach, using stippling and fine-line detailing to reimagine traditional symbols of life and death. Through monochromatic precision, Laura pays tribute to the ancestral connections embedded in this celebration, while also pushing the boundaries of how these traditions can be visually interpreted in contemporary art.
Family Style
A playful yet intentional series that uses food as a lens for exploring memory, nostalgia, and shared experience. Named after dishes often found at the table, each painting balances abstraction with structure, layering color, texture, and repetition to echo the rhythm of communal meals and inherited rituals. Some works are expressive and gestural, while others are more minimal and geometric, mirroring the variety and contrast found in family gatherings. At its heart, the series invites viewers to consider how something as simple as a side dish can hold story, culture, and connection.
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