Laura Elkins Information

Laura Elkins makes her home in Washington DC, an environment that informs her current work. rimarily self-taught as a visual artist, Elkins has a degree in architecture from the University of Virginia and has worked in all phases of architectural practice. She also studied at the Polytechnic Central London and Sweet Briar College. In 1993 Elkins received a grant, funded by the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation, to create Why There Are No Great Women Artists: The Children's Room that translated her series of paintings, The Birth of Housework, into architecture. Elkins was the Forsyth Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2008 and joins the Santa Fe Art Institute's Immigration / Emigration Residency in September 2015. A monograph of Summer in the City is available June 2015. In conjunction with the publication of the Summer monograph, Tikhonova&Wintner in New York exhibit She's a Lady, a solo show that includes selections from The White Collection produced over the past fifteen years. Other exhibitions of The White House Collectioninclude Fabrications: Constructing Female Identity, curated by Yulia Tikhonova, at Dixon Place in Manhattan; Studio Montclair Viewpoints 2014, curated by Sue Scott, at Aljira Contemporary Art Center in Newark NJ; and three solo shows at the Fridge in DC. Selections from Studies in Domination were included in 19 Ways of Looking at a Paintingat Porch Projects in DC in 2012, in DCwRAP, a solo exhibition at Ground Floor Workshop in Brooklyn in 2011; and King Me: Studies in the Uncivilized World, curated by Adam Dwight, at the Fridge in DC in 2012.