About the Artist

“My work redefines portraiture by expanding the boundaries of the print medium. By combining matrices that span the origins of the medium to the newest technologies, I use prints and handmade paper to create multi-faceted paper sculptures to explore how individuals are shaped by their familial network. This includes non-Western and Western traditional print processes--woodblock, drypoint, etching, and engraving--handmade paper, and post-digital techniques--casting and CNC routing--to expand the definition of printmaking and rethink portraiture. My practice is a means to connect with local, national, and international communities and individuals, including my portrait subjects and family networks, as well as traditional artisans and technicians for new technologies.”

Laura Post earned an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Printmaking and a B.A. from Swarthmore College in Studio Art and Asian Studies. Post uses her training in Chinese language and East Asian studies to incorporate traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Western printmaking and papermaking techniques in her work. Additionally, she uses invasive plant species from different ecological regions to create sustainable paper and pulp paintings.

She is currently on the faculty at University of Texas Arlington and lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Previously she was a Lecturer in the Foundations area at Indiana University, Bloomington. There she spearheaded a grant project to use invasive plants to make paper. In the last year, Post opened three solo exhibitions. Laura Post: About Face--Portraits and Prints since 2009 at Swarthmore College’s List Gallery and Laura Post: Familial Patterns at CR Ettinger Studio Gallery; and Arts Place Indiana. Her work has also been featured in numerous national and international group exhibitions including Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale, Shanghai, China; Umbra: New Prints for a Dark Age selected by Alison Saar at International Print Center New York; twice selected for PaperWest: National Works on Paper Juried Exhibition at the University of Utah to name a few.