Self-Description: Laurel Jay is an installation/performance artist who
has presented her work in New York City at venues including
Exit Art/The First World, The Knitting Factory, Performance
Space 122, and BIG ART in Small Spaces. She also
participated in the 1999 Performance Art Festival in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Last fall, Laurel was invited for a month-long residency at
the MacDowell Colony. And, in the fall of 1996, she was
Artist-in-Residence at The University of Southern Maine,
creating two new pieces, as well as conducting a workshop
introducing performance/ installation to students and local
artists. Incorporating bits of mundane and gestural
movement into her visual work, Laurel creates what is
considered performed installations.
Always attempting to balance both sides of her brain, Laurel
was the PR/Marketing Director for Performance Space 122, and
the Summer Studies Director for Parsons School of Design
before deciding to forgo a duel career, and focus on making
art. Last year, she also began to teach a newly developed
"survival skills" course for fine art students.
Prior to moving to New York over nine years ago, Laurel
earned a degree in her home town of Boston at Tufts
University, and has also studied at the Museum School and
Parsons. She has studied/lived in London and The
Netherlands, as well. Currently, Laurel lives and works at Casa Gunga, the hippest joint in town.
Interests: Laurel gets giddy for experimental art, first
editions of Jeanette Winterson books and Jeff Buckley.
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