Laura Plageman

Laura Plageman’s works oscillate between image and object, photography and sculpture, landscape and still life. Her two-part “Response” series is a reaction to an original image — a cumulative record of her memory of the time and place and subsequent experiments — sculpted and collaged into a tabletop assemblage and re-photographed. Plageman regards the places she photographs as object-like themselves in the way they are experienced (usually through a camera) and recorded, continually changing shape through layers of interpretation, forces of nature, and human impact. These perpetual new renditions are characterized by subtle compositional distortions, hovering between reality and artifice.

Submitted by De Soto Gallery