Laura

Shill

Laura Shill is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans and combines sculpture, installation, collage, and photography. Her work investigates motifs of disclosure and concealment, agency and emotional risk, desire and discontent. Oscillating between humor and heartbreak, she creates minimalistic compositions that capture a complex array of feelings.

Often present in her work are the pronounced absences she creates to make visible the invisible power structures that inform our relationships with each other or conceal the work of care that props up the whole human endeavor. Many of these works invite touch and blur boundaries between public and private space. Shill employs repetition of form to create environments that make thousands of hours of invisible labor material. She uses everyday objects and supplies to make these works, often salvaged from roadsides and thrift stores or scavenged from former iterations of projects to test her theory that anything can be transformed with enough time and attention and care.

Laura Shill

Laura Shill was born in 1980 in Birmingham, Alabama. Se currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado.