Mary Laube - Mother of Pearl (acrylic on panel, 11” x 14", 2019)
My paintings address the relationship between material culture and memory. I create fragmented representations related to cultural displacement and memory loss. Through painting, I hope to find new ways of contextualizing my own migration story within broader narratives of global diaspora. Each painting references a unique object observed from various sources including museum collections and printed books relating to the history and culture of Korea. Overtime, the recognizable references in the work become abstracted, representing the spaces in our memory where we imagine or invent something new.
My paintings address the relationship between material culture and memory. I create fragmented representations related to cultural displacement and memory loss. Through painting, I hope to find new ways of contextualizing my own migration story within broader narratives of global diaspora. Each painting references a unique object observed from various sources including museum collections and printed books relating to the history and culture of Korea. Overtime, the recognizable references in the work become abstracted, representing the spaces in our memory where we imagine or invent something new.
My paintings address the relationship between material culture and memory. I create fragmented representations related to cultural displacement and memory loss. Through painting, I hope to find new ways of contextualizing my own migration story within broader narratives of global diaspora. Each painting references a unique object observed from various sources including museum collections and printed books relating to the history and culture of Korea. Overtime, the recognizable references in the work become abstracted, representing the spaces in our memory where we imagine or invent something new.