Focusing on color and the building of relationships through abstracted forms, Laura Berman's work is grounded in earth science and the body. Iteration is at the heart of her practice.

Through printed layers and physical pattern-building, her work builds narratives about the connections between time, play, and discovery. 

In this talk, she shares research on the material and cultural study of color through the lens of contemporary printmaking art.

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Speaker Spotlight: Laura Berman

Laura Crehuet Berman is a Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute where she has taught in the Printmaking Department since 2002. She creates images inspired by the natural world that layer time, space, form and color together.

Berman's prints are widely collected and her work has been featured in the books Colour Theory: A Critical Introduction (Fine/Bloomsbury Books, 2020), Contemporary American Printmakers (Standish, Rooney/Schiffer Publishing, 2014) and Printmaking at the Edge (Noyce/A&C Black, 2006). She has exhibited at galleries and museums internationally in over 150 exhibitions.

She works with numerous fine print and commercial publishers and her work is represented by galleries: Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas City), Cura Contemporary (Morgan Hill, CA), Long View Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Olson-Larsen Gallery (Des Moines), and Uprise Art (New York City).

Since 2020 Berman has published Reflections on Color and Printmaking, an online archive of over 80 interviews with contemporary artists who use both color and print media in their work. In 2024 Berman was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra (Australia).