Lauriston Avery American, b. 1968

Lauriston Avery (b. 1968, Norwich, CT), lives and works in New York, having studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, he received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1990. Avery’s selected solo exhibitions include Full Moon, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Deaf Bats Blind Shepards, Wildpalms, Düsseldorf, Germany; and To be Continued, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Embers, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Magical Operations, Wildpalms, Düsseldorf, Germany; Zip City, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA; Walk the Line, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Big Ringer, Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY; Come a Little Closer, DC Moore, NY; and After the End, NADA. His work has been featured at the Bridge Art Fair, Miami; NEXT Art Fair, Chicago; Untitled Art Fair, Miami; and NADA, New York.

For Avery, this practice can be interpreted as conjuring. Alternating between feverishly building and impulsively excavating, he champions intuition as an interface with the metaphysical. His obsessive process and transmutation of material on the picture plane and in space summons that which is hidden within the tangible. Shimmering between the fantastical and the objective, Avery draws upon his attraction to the mystical and esoteric, where the laws governing what is visible are influenced by what is not.