Laurie Sermos

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Laurie Sermos’ color photographs often deal with the visible intersection of natural and created environments. Within these modern landscape images, nature or constructed environments of nature are represented as places to be considered and looked at. The environments photographed are often places built with an intended functionality. However through the act of photography, we are able to pause and engage with these environments in a way that allows for a different kind of reflection.

BIO:

Laurie Sermos had her first photographic experience at age 8, shooting Polaroid’s in her backyard in New Jersey. She has continued her photographic practice since, and studied photography at Pratt Institute (BFA, 1999), and Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (MFA, 2006). She has exhibited her work nationally and abroad. Laurie currently teaches photography at Rutgers University, and Pratt Institute. She has also taught with the University of Georgia’s studies abroad program in Corona, Italy (2006, 2008).