LAURA ROBINSON
Laura Robinson is the Director of AvantGarden Art Gallery. She is also a sculptor and oil painter and has been practicing art for longer than she can remember.
Her sculptures are simultaneously geometric and organic, structured and free flowing and her paintings range from precision of formal portraiture to the energy and freedom of impressionism and expressionism.
Throughout her life, Laura has found a great diversity of achievements. As a child she studied under Ross Churchill, a classical artist and teacher. Her first natural gift was capturing likeness in portraiture. When she was in college, although majoring in English and Math, she spent most of her spare time in the art studio and theatre departments. She provided illustrations and cover art for the college yearbook and literary magazine for three years. After graduating, she did theatre set designs and program illustrations in North Carolina, Virginia, and California.
Laura then studied portraiture with John Howard Sanden in New York, and she has worked in sculpture with Lou Cohen, Ron Young, and Steve Werlick and plein air painting with John Eagle, Mark Kerkoff and Ken Auster.
Laura’s artwork may be found at AvantGarden Art Gallery, Artists Eye Laguna Gallery, Showcase Gallery, and OCFA Artist’s Studios at South Coast Plaza Village.
Gallery Director
Visual Artist
Sculptor
Oil Painter
Recent Exhibitions:
Laguna Beach Sawdust - Winter Fantasy
Huntington Beach Plein Air Invitational
Nautical Museum/Balboa Peninsula - Juried
UCI Aboretum Fall Art and Flower Festival
SoCalPAPA Back Bay - Juried
Sunset Beach Annual Art Festival