VERONICA LAWLOR

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Veronica Lawlor's work sits at the intersection of illustration and abstraction. For over 25 years, her reportage drawings have led her around the world creating award-winning illustrations for numerous clients. Her expressionistic on-site work considers the sensation of place through formal aesthetic and narrative concerns. She brings those same sensibilities into the studio, making work that reflects the energy and atmosphere of the places she has documented. Her location drawings become visual research and points of departure for layered, textured abstract narrative paintings. She  is especially interested in the emotional remnants of history that live on through what Hannah Arendt referred to as "the world of things".

A native New Yorker, Veronica is on the faculty of Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the Woodstock School of Art. She conducts reportage workshops worldwide. Her work has been exhibited by the United Nations, the Mystic Seaport Museum, the Society of Illustrators, Carter Burden Gallery, Albert Shahinian Fine Art and 601 Artspace, among others. She is in numerous private and corporate collections and has authored several books on drawing and illustration.