Laurel Hausler

Laurel Hausler is a 21st century oil painter and sculptor with a small cult following. Hausler's work has been widely critiqued and her style has been compared to that of Joseph Cornell, Frida Kahlo, Edward Gorey and Francis Bacon. Her focus is on a woman's experience in a chaotic world. Laurel Hausler worked as a journalist, a zookeeper, a tarot card reader. Hausler was born in Fairfax, Virginia in 1977 and began to paint after living in New Orleans in the late 1990's. Her works are primarily dark and figurative, relying heavily on imagery built upon her Catholic childhood.Influenced by the limits imposed in Catholic school and a general love of history, Hausler has developed her signature style by combining collage, found objects, drawing and painting. While she studied Literature at Gettysburg College, Hausler ultimately taught herself her innovative method of applying oil paint in many ghostly layers. Hausler follows a thread of expression begun by the Symbolists and continued by Expressionists such as Edvard Munch. She shows with galleries and museums across the United States. Writes curator Carol Lukitsch," [Laurel's] unsettling...characters from history and literature/self portraits appear to be simultaneously forming and dissolving."

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* [http://www.nmwa.org/clara/search_artist_detail.asp?artist_id=35134&search=basic National Museum of Women in the Arts:Notable female artist database]
* [www.laurelhausler.com laurelhausler.com]
* [www.nevinkellygallery.blogspot.com By Laura Kuah]
* [http://dcist.com/2007/12/03/attainable_art.php DCist: Attainable Art: December 3, 2007] By Lynne Venart
* [http://www.examiner.com/a-545026~Far__far_away__Painting_a_story.html Examiner Review by Robin Tierney: Far, Far Away: Painting a Story] . February 3, 2007.
* [http://www.streetlightmag.org/pdfs/SL_V1.pdf Streetlight Magazine]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/14/AR2007031402324.html The Washington Post: Girls' Day Out, March 15, 2007]
* [www.artwhino.com Art Whino Gallery]
* [www.galleryinthewoods.com Gallery in the Woods]
* [http://www.arlingtonartscenter.org/exhibitions.htm Arlington Arts Center] . Exhibition, "Hope & Fear" December 2007 Curator/Writer: Carol Lukitsch