Studio visit with:

LAURA PIASTA

Sunday, April 20, 2008


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Born in 1981, Piasta received her BFA from Emily Carr College of Art and design in 2006. Her work has appeared at galleries and institutions including the Blanket Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, the Video In, and the Helen Pitt Back Gallery in Vancouver; Ephemeroptera Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; El Levante in Rosario, Argentina; and Sign Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2007, Piasta was the recipient of a Vancouver Artist Development Award.

Having played bass for Vancouver band The Book of Lists, Piasta incorporated into her earlier work the typologies at play in music, popular music in particular. Whether forming orbs out of found album cover art, creating videos of young people playing guitar in front of a cave (\”The Bolero Project\”), or making drawings of flattened crystals that seemed to hum in sotto voce tones (while still suggestive of an intense energy), Piasta has been known to explore the links between sound and vision, creating a world that is both immediately identifiable and mystical.

Read a review of Piasta\’s work, published in the Georgia Straight: Laura Piasta: New Works on Paper