Laurie Hogin
Contemporary Surrealism Oil painting
About
Laurie Hogin is a contemporary American painter renowned for her allegorical works featuring mutant plants and animals in overgrown landscapes or classical still-life and portraiture compositions. Her art explores human impulses such as pleasure, intoxication, addiction, the erotic, totemism, violence, greed, grief, and love, drawing from evolutionary biology, culture, and consumer capitalism. She combines historical painting tropes with modern visual conventions like natural history dioramas, fashion photography, and retail displays to critique social, political, and emotional phenomena.
Contemporary Surrealism with realist allegorical depictions of mutant flora and fauna
Selected Exhibitions
- Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (1992)
- Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA (2004)
- Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (2007)
- Bradley University, Peoria, IL (2010)
- Evanston Art Center (1997 career survey)
- Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (2007 career survey)
- Art Institute of Chicago
- New Museum
- Portland Art Museum
Awards
- Lucy Walton Fellow, University of Virginia Mountain Lake Biological Research Station