For over 20 years that Laurie Hogin’s work has captured the allegorical paintings of mutant plants and animals in languishing, overgrown landscape settings or posed as though for classical still life or portraiture. 

In the same way as other artists do, Laurie Hogin is interested in various objects to be described in her artwork, including examining human impulses, desires, and needs, including pleasure, intoxication, addiction, the erotic, totem, violence, greed, grief, and love. 

Her recent works are produced with the combination of personal narrative and cultural comment which depict she views herself as an example of a contemporary individual negotiating the world as she recognizes and copes with the impulses inherent in her own humanity.

“Certainly, as a painter, I value the visual, tactile and poetic pleasures of what paint can do and what it’s for: It’s formal and material qualities, it’s plasticity, and it’s usefulness in appropriating languages from the history of its use to certain semiotic purposes. My color palette has acquired the Day-Glo intensity of contemporary media landscapes”, she mentioned on her website. 

You can see more on her website.