About Laura Domencic
Laura Domencic is an independent artist, curator, writer and educator based in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University,and earned her MFA in Visual Arts at Lesley University College of Art and Design.Laura’s social practice involves extensive collaboration with artists, community organizations, and universities, consulting on strategic planning, grant writing and project management. As the Director of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts for eleven years, she developed many exhibitions,education programs, and publications. She is currently a lead partner and curator with The Documentary Works, a group that produces photo documentary exhibits on social and environmental justice. Her recent roles include writer/editor of the catalog for Tina Williams Brewer’s retrospective exhibit at the African American Museum in Dallas and director of Arts France, an artist residency in Ambialet, France.
New Brunswick Art Salon 2020 – “The Space Between” – Women’s Caucus for Art New York City Chapter
Artist Personal Website: www.lauradomencic.com
Email: lauradomencic@gmail.com.
Artist Statement
Laura Domencic uses her practice as a way to access the place of possibility, a state of not knowing what exists between faith and doubt. She examines materiality to consider the physical nature of experiences as an antidote to the increasing dominance of the incorporeal, virtual experience. Her work is a quiet declaration of lived experience, that questions the“productivity and progress”gained from new technologies. It is a search for understanding how to be in this world, at this time. Her current body of work is made of ephemeral materials, marks, actions and time. The lines and threads bind, hold, secure, break, and rip apart at the seams in a state of constant repair and collapse. They are complete in the unfinished state, resting while hidden in plain sight. The slow making of drawing and sewing provide the certainty of touch. Through muscle memory, the investment of time becomes physical in the material paintings. The quiet subversiveness in these works are the physical form of doubt and hope in the possibilities of each moment, asking the viewer to pause and wonder.
Education
MFA candidate, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Selected Exhibitions
2020
Three Rivers Arts Festival’s Juried Visual Arts Exhibition, juror’s award, Pittsburgh, PA
Art of the State 2020, juried by State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA (upcoming)
MFA Graduate Exhibition, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA (upcoming)
2019
What Deepest Remains, Group A juried by Hilary D. Gent, Brew House Association, PA
Pittsburgh Group 9, Firebox Art Studios, Carnegie, PA
Group A 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2018
Group A: Celebrating 75 Years, curated by Vicky A. Clark, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Soul, group exhibit, Panza Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2017
Group A: Small Works, juried by Graham Shearing, Jask Gallery & FrameHouse, Pittsburgh, PA
NOW, Group A exhibition, Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2016
John Riegert, curated by Brett Yasko, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
In the Making, 250 Years/250 Artists, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2006
Centennial 100%, Alumni exhibition, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, PA
2004
Wish You Were Here III, benefit postcard show, A.I.R. Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Annual Exhibition, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
generations.04, A.I.R. Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2003
Dream Sail, one of four commissioned resolution installations for First Night 2004 in Pittsburgh, PA
Generation Art, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2003 Hoyt Mid-Atlantic Juried Art Exhibition, The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA
balance, recent paintings by Laura Domencic and Grace Summanen, Penn Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Selected Curatorial Projects
2020
Out Of Many – Stories of Migration, Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, NY*
2019
Out of Many – Stories of Migration, Chatham University*
What You Take with You, juror, Ceres Gallery, NYC, NY
2018
Out of Many – Stories of Migration, Carlow University, Pittsburgh*
Emigration–Immigration–Migration, co-curator with Brian Cohen, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
2017
Out of Many – Stories of Migration, featuring photography by Brian Cohen, Scott Goldsmith, Nate Guirdy, Lynn Johnson, Annie O’Neill. American Jewish Museum, Jewish Community Center, Pittsburgh
Nine Solo & Collaborative Exhibitions, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts*
2016
The New Collective 2016, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Paintings, Phiris Kathryn Sickels, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Faculty Show, Pittsburgh Filmmakers Galleries
surface | material, Ron Copeland, Ryder Henry, Bill Miller, Grace Summanen, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
River, Stream, Tap, Recent Works by Barrie Kaufman, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Marcellus Shale Documentary Project: An Expanded View, featuring photography by Noah Addis, Nina Berman, Brian Cohen, Lynn Johnson, Scott Goldsmith, Martha Rial, Joe Seamans with graphics by FracTracker Alliance, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts*
Arts in Education, collaborative works from artists’ residencies in schools, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Ten Solo Exhibitions, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2015
In The Air: Visualizing what we breathe, featuring photography by Scott Goldsmith, Lynn Johnson, Annie O’Neill and Brian Cohen, Pittsburgh Filmmakers Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA*
Artist of the Year, Dennis Marsico, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Chuck Olson, The Church of Saint-Gilles, Ambialet, France
90 Pittsburgh Neighborhoods by Ron Donoughe, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2013
Master Visual Artists VI, co-curated with Kathleen Zimbicki, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh; Bottleworks Arts Center, Johnstown, PA
2012 – 2016
Marcellus Shale Documentary Project, featuring photography by Noah Addis, Nina Berman, Brian Cohen, Lynn Johnson, Scott Goldsmith and Martha Rial. Pittsburgh Filmmakers Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA*
2011
Pittsburgh Biennial 2011, project manager, Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
Paintings and Works on Paper, Maxo Vanka, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2009
Artist of the Year, Tim Kaulen, outdoor sculptures, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Map of Everything, Sheila Klein, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Selections from Pittsburgh Biennial 2008, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Pittsburgh Biennial 2008, co-curated with George Davis, Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
Exchange Exhibition – Philadelphia Selections: Career Development Program Fellows from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2007
Group Picture, Deanne Dunbar, Blanket Statement, Shawn Quinlan and American Brain, Robert Raczka, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2005
Biennial, co-curated with Hilary Shames, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Master Visual Artists V, co-curated with Kathleen Zimbicki, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Generation Art 2, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Artist interview