Laura Bruce is the lead singer in the concept band Dangerpony,[3][4] who performed live in 2012 for the exhibition opening I Wish This Was A Song at the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in a program including Jan Köchermann & Doppelgenscher, Diamanda Galas, and Killl.[5]
Work
A close analysis of the works reveals an intuited and abstracted sense of vision on several levels, and not merely in terms of the drawn material applications, subtle speculative hatching contrasted with intense passages of graphite mark making, but rather they are not so much descriptive as an imbued consciousness of place. While this forms a visual paradox of sorts, the viewer has a feeling of substantial ephemerality, an intuited materialisation of landscape that reaches out towards and into the phenomenological ungraspable.
Mark Gisbourne, exhibition catalog ROHKUNSTBAU XXIV, 2018
Her work explores drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, video[6] and performance. Large-scale black and white graphite drawings are an important part of her oeuvre. They are characterized by bold strokes, clear contrasts of black and white, and a distinctive representation of nature as power / phenomenon / myth and the human relationship to it.
Her drawing process of detailed mark making against smooth, large surfaces of complex gray tones. Her drawings have echoes of 19th century European Romantic painting and Hudson River School painting in the U.S. Bruce often works with historical references, which she approaches from a contemporary perspective, for instance in her installation Perpetual, a work of 79 drawings based on Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos, which she showed in full for the first time at Haus am Waldsee Museum in Berlin in 2018.[7] Or her drawing / sound installation Goodbye is Half the Words You Know (2009-2013), where Bruce presents 10 portraits of classic country singers and reinterprets their songs with her band, Dangerpony. A part of this work was exhibited in 2016 in the exhibition Passion - Fan Behavior and Art (curated by Christoph Tannert) at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin[8] and the Ludwig Museum, Budapest.[9] It was shown in full in the group exhibition I Wish This Was A Song[10] (curated by Stina Högkvist and Sabrina van der Ley) at the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in 2013.[5]
Public collections
Bruce' works can be found in the collections of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Artothek and the Video-Forum),[11] the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, the Berlinische Galerie, the Collection of the City of Mainz[12] and the Vattenfall Foundation, Berlin.
Public commissions
Laura Bruce's large-format (10 x 6 m) site-specific commission, "De Septentrione ad Astrum" is a permanent mural realized in 2015 in Aschersleben in the Bestehornpark building and officially handed over to the city of Aschersleben.[13][14]
Awards
2012: Losito Kunstpreis[15]
2010: Grant of the Senate for Cultural Activities, Berlin
2008: Käthe Dorsch Foundation
2004: Grant of the Senate for Cultural Activities, Berlin
2004: Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn[16]
2003: Käthe Dorsch Foundation, Berlin
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2018: To Kiss or Kill, Galerie Rompone, Cologne[17]
2015: Love and Other Machines, New Art Projects, London, UK[18]
2015: BRUCE SILL, with Heidi Sill, Kunsthaus Erfurt[19]
2010: Holy Rollers, with Hannah Dougherty, The Forgotten Bar, Berlin[21]
2008: The Hunt, fruehsorge contemporary drawings[22]
2007: Night Twist, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig
2006: Landowners, Galerie Pankow, Berlin[23]
2005: Big Sky, Galerie Ulrike Buschlinger, Wiesbaden[24]
2004: The Wide, Büro für Kunst, Dresden
Group exhibitions
Publications
Catalogs
2018: Rohkunstbau XXIV: Achtung – Mind the Gap. (Text by Mark Gisbourne)[28][54]
2018: Laura Bruce – To Kiss or Kill. (Rompone Gallery, Cologne)[55]
2018: Laura Bruce – Sounds That Clouds Make. Wasmuth, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8030-3398-7. (Artloft and Alexander Ochs Berlin. Text by Gregory Volk)[56]
2016: What We Do For Love. (Studio Barbara Krimm. Text by Nicola Kuhn)[57]
2016: Moment und Dauer. (Parterre Gallery, Berlin. Texts by Kathleen Krenzlin, Jens Semrau and Christian Ulrich)[58]
2010: Picture disk vinyl release, West Germany, Berlin[81]
2009: The Carnival Within, Uferhallen, Berlin[82]
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External links
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Official website
Laura Bruce on artitious.com
Portfolio In: bombmagazine.org
Interview mit Laura Bruce In: independent-collectors.com. 03/31/2017.