Collections
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.
Windows of the World
Windows of the World explores 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, 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.
La Loteria
La Lotería is a series that reimagines 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.
Family Style
Family Style is 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.
Gradient Horizon
Gradient Horizon 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.
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