DUSSELDORF.- Laura Aberham’s painting has always made use of various techniques, which are constantly being developed further. She skillfully explores the space of possibilities between forms, structures, lines and volumes and creates a multi-layered interplay of translucent and opaque surfaces. In her abstract, often gestural paintings, she combines free, expressive brushstrokes with the integration of structures to create dynamic, multi-layered works. Materiality and movement play a central role.

In her new paintings, moments of reality are concealed in the abstraction. The exhibition title “Blue Mesa” is taken from the name of a stone landscape in Arizona, USA, which the artist traveled to this summer. The hills there are colored blue, pink, grey and purple. Laura Aberham’s new paintings are deliberately and subtly intended to evoke such associations in the viewer. Nevertheless, her painting remains unquestionably abstract, never oriented towards a concrete naturalistic image.

In her exploration of abstract painting, she understands color as an independent medium of expression, based on large-format, gestural color surfaces. In her large paintings, she experiments with different gradations that result from the interaction of the color with the soft gradations of light on the curvature.

Laura Aberham (*1994) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, initially with Katharina Grosse and graduated in 2019 as a master student of Ellen Gallagher. Laura Aberham lives and works in Düsseldorf. In 2020 she was represented in a group exhibition at the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf, in 2022 her works were shown in group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Kunstverein Duisburg and in 2023 at the Glasmalereimuseum in Linnich. Galerie Rupert Pfab presented exhibitions by Laura Aberham in 2019, 2021 and 2023.