Laura Roebuck’s abstract expressionist and formally composed paintings express color, shape, and texture. Her work is informed by her innate artistic sensibilities and years spent as a modern dancer and a psychiatrist. Her paintings reflect a certain awareness of balance, expression, and motion that is intimately tied to this history. Some pieces are developed over years as she adds and removes marks, gestures, and color. The works continue to evolve as the artist slowly builds layers and coherence. The result is a body of richly formed paintings that probe color, composition, and abstraction. Roebuck holds a close and dynamic relationship with her work.
BIO
Laura Roebuck was born in 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio where she studied and performed modern dance at the Cleveland Modern Dance Association. Her dual interest in psychology led her to pursue a career as a psychiatrist, studying at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where she received her M.D. and later at University of California, San Francisco.
After a long career in the medical field, Roebuck went on to dedicate herself fully to painting. Since then, the artist’s work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Recent exhibitions include a traveling solo exhibition at the William H. and Sonja Carlson Davidow Fine Art Gallery at Colby-Sawyer College and The Temple Museum of Jewish Art, Religion, and Culture in Cleveland, Ohio as well as the debut of her newest body of work PINK SERIES in Sausalito, California. Additionally, her work can be found in numerous private collections across the country.
