LAURA ROOSEVELT
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Touching Colors

Touching Colors began during a period of profound transition and deepened Roosevelt’s commitment to surrender within process. These paintings incorporate soils collected from places that marked her life, allowing geography, memory, and material to converge.

Each layer responds to the last, embedding time, movement, and encounter into the surface. Touch operates on multiple levels: hand to paint, paint to earth, earth to memory. The work becomes a record of accumulation and attentiveness, documenting what unfolds when intention and accident are allowed to coexist.

Clear Creek II

2022-2023 Acrylic, Ink, Oil Stick on Canvas 20 × 20 in

Clear Creek III (triptych)

2022-2023 Acrylic, Ink, Oil on Canvas 20 × 20 in

Color Study for Liz

2022 Ink on Paper 18 × 6 in

Ethers

2014-2018 Acrylic, and oil on canvas mounted on board 48 × 114 in

Goddess of Fair Park

2016-2019 Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board 48 × 86 in

Gossamer Thread I

2016-2018 Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board 24 × 39 in

Gossamer Thread II

2016-2018 Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board 24 × 20 in

Hope - on the strangest sea

2014-2023 Acrylic, oil on canvas mounted on board 42 × 36 in

Hope - Is the Thing with Feathers I

2014-2023 Acrylic and oil on canvas mounted on board 72 × 42 in

Ladies In Blue

2017-2019 Acrylic, ink and oil on canvas mounted on board 89 × 115 in

Lakeside

c. 2017 Acrylic, ink and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board 51 × 84 in

LIZ

2020-2024 Pastel, Acrylic and oil on Canvas Mounted on Board 58 × 36 in

MM I

2015-2018 Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas Mounted on Board 72 × 84 in

Ode to Joan (study)

c. 2021 Acrylic and Oil on Board 10 × 12 in

Ode to Joan III

c. 2017 Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board 64 × 44 in

Phlashes

c. 2019 Acrylic, and oil on Canvas Mounted on Board 44 × 70.5 in

Reflecting on Ladies in Blue

2022 Acrylic ink and oil on paper 18 × 6 in

Reflecting on Ladies in Blue I

2022 Acrylic, Ink and Oil on Paper 18 × 6 in

Study in Blue II

2017 Acrylic and Mixed Media Resin on Board 20 × 16 in

Super Ball

2016-2019 Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board 52 × 84 in

Surrounding Cloud That Will Not Free My Soul (Valkyrie IV)

2018 Acrylic, Mixed Media with Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board 60 × 18 in

The Woods

2023 Mixed Media on Paper 6 × 6 in

Untitled (TS)

2023 Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper 5 × 7 in

WHY o WHY

c. 2019 Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Board 24 × 24 in
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