Artist Statement
Laura Dobrota’s work ranges from, portrayals and observations of the physical world that parallel varied consciousnesses or forms. To dynamic abstract structures through automatism and nonobjective formal structures.
With work involving the study of nests, Dobrota personalized much of the work into a synthetic archive, representing the nest as a subject within a naturalism sense, as well as a fictive interpretation of her own poetic language. The nests’ juxtaposing to the female body and its functions was one interpretation that emerged frequently. Other notions of cellular biology, ornithology, ideas of home, and the creation and alteration of pictorial space also informed the work through installations, drawings, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, and fiber.
In other work in involving observed behaviors and seemingly constant surroundings as it related to new motherhood, sleep deprivation and postpartum depression, Dobrota used photography to document areas around her home, where she noticed she was repeatedly staring blankly each day. Some of these images later merged with digital media for the creation of abstract structures. Consequently, moving away from home environment representation, to altered images with the emphasis on the formality of form, line, and color to "awaken" the senses.
Digital media continues to be a starting point for quick means of automatism release and expression depicting nonobjective or abstracted arrangements. At times the work emerges to branch outside of the flat plane to expand upon color and form through fabric, thus creating a fusion of extension.
Laura Dobrota’s work ranges from, portrayals and observations of the physical world that parallel varied consciousnesses or forms. To dynamic abstract structures through automatism and nonobjective formal structures.
With work involving the study of nests, Dobrota personalized much of the work into a synthetic archive, representing the nest as a subject within a naturalism sense, as well as a fictive interpretation of her own poetic language. The nests’ juxtaposing to the female body and its functions was one interpretation that emerged frequently. Other notions of cellular biology, ornithology, ideas of home, and the creation and alteration of pictorial space also informed the work through installations, drawings, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, and fiber.
In other work in involving observed behaviors and seemingly constant surroundings as it related to new motherhood, sleep deprivation and postpartum depression, Dobrota used photography to document areas around her home, where she noticed she was repeatedly staring blankly each day. Some of these images later merged with digital media for the creation of abstract structures. Consequently, moving away from home environment representation, to altered images with the emphasis on the formality of form, line, and color to "awaken" the senses.
Digital media continues to be a starting point for quick means of automatism release and expression depicting nonobjective or abstracted arrangements. At times the work emerges to branch outside of the flat plane to expand upon color and form through fabric, thus creating a fusion of extension.