Artist: Laura Gates | Location: Pineville, LA
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Artist: Laura Gates | Location: Pineville, LA
Pineville, LA
Laura Gates received her BFA in Art and her MA in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Massachusetts. For years she worked for the National Park Service in the west and southwest, which provided opportunities to live and work in national parks and protected areas. She also completed international assignments in conjunction with her work. All of these places, with their amazing landscapes, people, cultural traditions, and deep history have informed her paintings. Now Gates paints full time. Since 2015 she has been a resident artist at River Oaks Square Arts Center in Alexandria, LA.
Gates’ work has been juried into a number of regional and national competitions over the past 20 years. She has won numerous awards including an honorable mention in the September Competition of the Alexandria Museum of Art. She has exhibited in group and solo shows in the Southeast. Her work is in private and institutional collections in the United States and several foreign countries.
Gates primarily paints landscapes, either in the studio or en plein air. In recent years she is painting more with knives rather than brushes, giving her work a freer, more abstract quality. The knives also allow for the use of pure pigment, making her paintings richer in color and texture.