Laria Saunders

An emerging artist from Boston, New York and Los Angeles.
From a family of artists that spans four generations on both sides.
Formally a professional dancer and passionate about photography since a young girl.
Disabling chronic pain for 13 years has had a profound impact on my life and art.
*Please do not steal these photos, photography is an expensive art and disability does not pay much.

Honors & Awards:

Awarded for abstract, wildlife, dance and travel photography by:
Eden Arts, UK, Momentum: Images of Dance, CT, Art Scene Today, Art Slant and Projekt 30
Awarded Fine Art Internship at Boston University
Honorable Mention, Boston Globe Scholastic Art Contest
UCLA alumni arts scholar recipient
Emma B Keller art scholarship
UCLA summa cum laude

Website: http://www.lariasaunders.com

Artist Statement: My abstract work is a kind of snapshot performance, a dance with light that strives to bring the observer into a portal unknown and yet vastly familiar. As a former professional classical Indian dancer I relentlessly trained to infuse every movement with the sacred by moving from within. Now, as a result of disabling chronic pain, the dance had to stop but the movement continues with the camera in a distilled form. Like a child at play, whirling with the camera eliminates me the “artist” in a fusion of subject and object. This form of capture takes the material world components and by combining color, texture, light and form, in effect, displays their real essence. Most of the artistic decisions are implemented in post-processing and printing. I am striving for unique color schemes, light forms, geometry, texture and fluidity of movement.

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