Laura Moriarty

visual art inspired by natural history        moriartylaura@gmail.com

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Subduction into Trench

Detail 1

Subduction into Trench

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 10 x 10 x 9

Subduction into Trench

Detail 2

Caldera

Detail 1

Caldera

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 13 x 10 x 7

Caldera

Detail 2

How Mountains Form

2009 / Encaustic on panel / 8" x 10" x 7"

The Level of Maximum Fill

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 8 x 10 x 7.5

The Level of Maximum Fill

Detail

Fold Mountain / aerial view

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 8" x 10" x 6.5"

Fold Mountain / profile view

Fissure

Detail 1

Fissure

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 17 x 15 x 5

Fissure

Detail 2

Drumlin Field

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 8" x 10" x 5.75"

The Understory

2009 / Pigmented beeswax on panel / 11" x 14" x 7"

The Understory / detail

Weathering Grade on a Rockface

2009 / Encaustic on panel / 8" x 10" x 5"

The Expansive Force of Water Freezing in Cracks

2009 / Encaustic on panel / 8" x 10" x 5.5"

Volcanic Mountain / profile view

2009 / Encaustic on panel / 12" x 9" x 6"

Volcanic Mountain / aerial view

Sinkhole

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 8" x 10" x 6.25"

Buried Landscape Unconformity

2009 / Encaustic on panel / 8" x 10" x 7"

Corestones in Situ

2009 / Encaustic on panel / 9" x 12" x 3.5"

Hackly Fracture

2009 / Encaustic on panel . 8 x 10 x 5.5

Cleavage (in profile)

Cleavage

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 8 x 10 x 5.5

Banded Hills

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 8 x 10 x 6.5

Banded Hills (in profile)

Angular Unconformity

2009 / Encaustic on panel / 8 x 10 x 7

Erosion Mountain / profile view

Erosion Mountain / aerial view

2010 / Encaustic on panel / 12 x 9 x 5.5

Terraced Fields and Lake

2009 / Encaustic on panel / 9 x 12 x 4.5

Brecchia

2009 / Encaustic / 14.5 x 14 x 10

Brecchia / detail

Upheaval

2009 / Encaustic, wooden pallets / 4.5 ft. x 8 ft. x 2 ft.

Upheaval / detail

Upheaval / detail 2

Cleveland SWAG

2009 / Encaustic, site-specific installation / 9 ft. x 4.5 ft x 21"

Cleveland SWAG

Skerry

2009 / Encaustic, site-specific installation / approx 20 ft. x 30 ft.

Skerry

Skerry

Skerry

Nothing Big but the Difference

2007 / Encaustic on shaped wood panel / 25 x 21 x 11

Scientific Wild Ass Guess (SWAG)

2007 / Encaustic, site-specific installation / 54" x 52" x 18"

SWAG detail

A Perfect World for Manganese Blue, detail

2005 / Encaustic on shaped wooden panel / 21 x 17 x 4.5

Giving Sway

2007 / Encaustic on shaped wood panel / 17 x 12 x 9

Giving Sway, detail

Deluxe 40 Piece Lustre Set

2006 / A collection of encaustic painting artifacts in a segmented specimen box / 18 x 21

Fossils of Imagined Territories

2005 / Poured pigmented beeswax with oil paint, assembled in a series of six archival boxes / each measures 21" x 25"

Fossils of Imagined Territories

Gemboree

2005 / Installation of hundreds of miniature encaustic painting fragments in hand-numbered specimen boxes / dimensions variable

Gemboree, detail

Photo Credits: 2009/10 Paintings by Richard Edelman / 'SWAG' by Ty Chennault / Various collected sets by James Fossett

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