Cathy McLaurin is a multidisciplinary artist whose work uses personal history to explore fleeting things through strategies of repetition, the creation of private actions, and the instigation of situations that engage other people, in order to allow moments of vulnerability to be shared by others, thus giving form to the transience of experience, specifically, that of longing, desire, and loss. These situations work in a lingering way, rather than an instant way, allowing for a philosophical pondering of meaning.

She has presented her work in art and non-art venues in the US and Canada. In 2006, she received a Puffin Foundation Grant for her project, Buscando la Verdad (Seeking Truth), which involved story telling, writing, and image making with homeless pregnant and parenting teens in San Antonio, TX. Her project was also supported with funding and a residency at Southwest School of Art & Craft in San Antonio. In 2003, she received an ART Award from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation and an artist residency award from Caldera, Sisters, OR, for her project, what haunts…. She has lead community-engaged projects for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, UMass Boston’s Art on the Point, and, among others, Essex Art Center in Lawrence, MA, where she is Special Projects & Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery Director. She is adjunct faculty at New Hampshire Institute of Art, and holds a BA with a concentration in Painting and Sculpture, from Meredith College, Raleigh, NC.

You can find more about Cathy’s work at www.cathymclaurin.com