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Laura Ball : Cosmos

Past exhibition
20 January - 25 February 2023
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Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves, 2022, watercolor, ink, gouache, acrylic, and graphite, 30.625 x 24.375 in (77.8 x 61.9 cm) Unframed
Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves, 2022, watercolor, ink, gouache, acrylic, and graphite, 30.5 x 24 in (77.5 x 61 cm)
These new watercolors represent access points and maps to the primeval places we all have in common, a familiarity outside of logical explanation, as if connected to the mycelium of the universe.

Throughout human history there have been recurring themes linked to animism. Across disparate cultures, spanning millennia, metaphors reflecting the psyche and the dark reaches of the galaxy have been linked to beasts great and small. Tapping into the collective unconscious, Ball draws inspiration from the primordial, dreamlike state of mind that connects consciousness to the non-verbal, vast cosmos. In the eternal worlds that she creates, interlinking creatures draw strength from one another as they twist and flex in fantastical unison.

  • Exhibition Essay by Laura Ball
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Works
  • Laura Ball, In the Sun of the Heart (Red Wolf), 2022

    Laura Ball, In the Sun of the Heart (Red Wolf), 2022

  • Colorful watercolor painting by Laura Ball of two intertwined snakes hissing at each other with a cosmic map in the center of them. Outside of the snakes swirl other cosmic portals, small insects and animals, and seraphim.
    Laura Ball, Portable Universe, 2022
  • Colorful watercolor painting by Laura Ball of a white arctic fox in a curled/ jumping shape. The fox’s body is made of flora and fauna weaving together surrounded by a rainbow-colored swirl of animals and miniature cosmos.
    Laura Ball, Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves, 2022
  • Laura Ball, Tulpa, 2022

    Laura Ball, Tulpa, 2022

  • Colorful watercolor painting by Laura Ball of a dark cosmic portal in the center topped with a raven and snake facing each other and two red wolves on the bottom. Around it are various animal vignettes, colorful feathers, insects, and small birds, seraphim, and small portals.
    Laura Ball, Space/Time, 2022
  • Colorful watercolor painting by Laura Ball of a leaping black leopard. The leopard is made of flora, fauna, and eye-shapped portals. The tail ends in a snake spitting out small birds and insects. The leopard rests on a bed of watercolor splashes and is surrounded by small animals, portals, and seraphim.
    Laura Ball, Cosmos, 2022
  • Laura Ball, The Perfect Moment (Solar Mandala), 2022
    Laura Ball, The Perfect Moment (Solar Mandala), 2022
  • Laura Ball, A Spark and a Rush, 2022
    Laura Ball, A Spark and a Rush, 2022
  • Laura Ball, War Horse (Picasso), 2022

    Laura Ball, War Horse (Picasso), 2022

  • Laura Ball, War Horse (Mars), 2022

    Laura Ball, War Horse (Mars), 2022

  • Laura Ball, Gateway to the Caverns of Universal Knowledge (Seraph Mandala), 2022
    Laura Ball, Gateway to the Caverns of Universal Knowledge (Seraph Mandala), 2022
  • Colorful watercolor painting by Laura Ball of the head of a bird of prey between an arch of a rainbow of birds of prey and a base of two intertwined snakes. Immediately around the bird is a ring of white hummingbirds, and encapsulating that coming up from the snakes are various land animals.
    Laura Ball, Separation of Earth and Sky (Blake), 2022
  • Laura Ball, Primordial Echo, 2022

    Laura Ball, Primordial Echo, 2022

  • Laura Ball, Tiger Gates, 2021
    Laura Ball, Tiger Gates, 2021
  • Laura Ball, The Burning One (Leopard Gates), 2022
    Laura Ball, The Burning One (Leopard Gates), 2022
  • Laura Ball, Master of Secrets (Lion Gates), 2022
    Laura Ball, Master of Secrets (Lion Gates), 2022
  • Colorful watercolor mandala painting by Laura Ball with a dark cosmic porta with green, algae-like swirls in the center. Surrounding the portal are black leopards, a white snake, a bird of prey, and a decorated grey horse’s head. Ringing everything is an ouroboros.
    Laura Ball, Celestial Map, 2022
  • Colorful watercolor painting by Laura Ball of a leaping Siberian tiger. The tiger’s body is made of flora and fauna weaving together, and hummingbirds are bursting from it.
    Laura Ball, Siberian Tiger Creature, 2020
Installation Views
  • Detail installation shot of the back wall of the Project Room with “Tiger Gates”, “Leopard Gates”, and “Lion Gates.”
  • Installation shot of Cosmos showing the interior of the Project Room. On the left wall is "Primordial Echo" and on the right is "Celestial Map". The back wall (left to right) is “Tiger Gates”, “Leopard Gates”, and “Lion Gates.”
  • Installation shot of Cosmos showing the Project Room from the entryway with three small works lining the back wall.
  • Installation shot of Cosmos showing the back left corner of the Main Gallery. On the right is “Cosmos” and on the left is “Tulpa” and “Space/Time.”
  • Installation shot of Cosmos showing “War Horse (Picasso)” and “War Horse (Mars)” on a wall facing each other.
  • Installation shot of Cosmos from the hallway between the Main Gallery and Project Room showing the left inside of the Project Room and the left of the Main Gallery and door.
  • Installation shot of Cosmos exhibition showing the main gallery from the door facing the back of the gallery.
  • Installation shot of Cosmos exhibition showing the main gallery from the back wall facing the front door.

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