Veronica Lawlor— Artist’s Biography
Studio: Hudson Valley, NY | New York, NY

Veronica Lawlor is a reportage artist and painter whose work has been exhibited by the UN, Mystic Seaport Museum, 601 Artspace, the Plaxall Gallery, Emerge Gallery, the Kleinert/James Center, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, and others. She is in numerous private and corporate collections including Chase Private Client and the SOHO House NY, for whom she created a mural in 2022. She was the 2011 North American Canson Prix representative, and her reportage drawings were presented at the Louvre.

Veronica is on the faculty of Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the Woodstock School of Art. She lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley, NY.

Artist’s Statement

My painted and mixed media works are grounded in my location drawing practice and the expression of sense of place. Immersed with my drawing board in the wild places of nature and the grittier urban spaces of human making, I translate the energy of life that vibrates within. These drawings become my point of departure for studio painting, in which I deconstruct shapes, utilizing line, texture and color layering to embody the sensation of memory that lingers on site.

My work has been called “psycho-aesthetic,” as I am interested in the emotions we feel and the meaning we make from our direct experience of place. I pursue the expressive narrative of these moments through the aesthetics of pen and ink, brush and paint.