Laurie Papa Minnick

Laurie Papa Minnick is an American artist currently residing in rural Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons. Originally from Long Island, she headed west to attend Arizona State University where she earned both her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees, specializing in wood sculpture. With a diverse professional background spanning gallery management, teaching, home renovation, and furniture design, Laurie boasts a broad portfolio of artwork, showcasing installation and object making across various mediums.

I see art as a space where the interplay between control and chaos mirrors the human condition, where the act of making becomes a dialogue between the tangible and the conceptual, between societal structures and personal reflection. In my current body of work, I reconstruct fabric from my family's discarded clothing and other everyday scraps into abstract compositions, using the sewn patterns as molds for casting cement pieces. The resulting artworks serve as physical impressions of those remnants, inviting a curiosity akin to observing a fossil.