Laurie Nye
My paintings mine the depths of intuition, speculative fiction,
and expressionism to elaborate on ideas around the complexity
of the female gaze and the ongoing revelations of humanity’s
struggle to control its relationship with nature. In the feminist
tradition of recasting myths to empower female characters, I
create otherworldly narratives, granting agency to hybrid shebeings
whom I see as muses and collaborators. The theme of
transformation recurs in my paintings. Creating images that can
appear both mythic and futuristic, my interest lies in generating
a productive tension by allowing for a nonlinear interpretation
of time as an ever-shifting and overlapping present.