SCULPTURES
While painting remains the central focus of Laura Roosevelt’s artistic practice, sculpture offers a complementary space for exploration. Working in steel, bronze, and found materials, Roosevelt extends the rhythmic and structural ideas present in her paintings into three-dimensional form.
Her sculptures often begin as gestures of line and balance. Metal becomes a medium through which movement can be held in space, allowing forms to rise, circle, or unfold beyond the surface of the canvas. These works reflect the same curiosity about rhythm, time, and transformation that shapes her painting practice.
ASCENDANCY
Ascendancy explores how stories, patterns, and truths are carried across generations. Built from repeating painted lines and rhythmic structures, the work reflects inheritance as both continuity and variation.
Vertical and horizontal marks suggest multiple readings: rain falling, time passing, pages being written, histories layered. Rather than illustrating specific narratives, the paintings hold space for reflection on what persists, how meaning is transmitted, and how individual experience becomes part of a broader human lineage.
HEAVY METAL BUBBLES
Heavy Metal Bubbles emerged from watching children play with a bubble blower, delighting in fleeting forms that catch light before vanishing. Roosevelt translates this moment of innocence into steel, creating interlinking abstract circles that freeze movement into permanence.
The paradox drives the work: playfulness becomes gravity, the ephemeral becomes enduring. Each sculpture bears the marks of its making, hammered textures, heat scars, evidence of force applied to resistant material. The forms are irregular, dented, and imperfect, echoing the way life shapes us over time. These works are meditations on resilience, adaptation, and the beauty that emerges through pressure and transformation.
Bubble Blower
Bubble Tower
Bubble Flight
Bubble Tower
Bubble Trees
Poplars