Sculptural vessels, furniture, and objets d’art made in Norway by sculptor Laurie Poast (b. 1974).
Severe and bare, the minimalist forms built by sculptor Laurie Poast are startlingly sensate. Spheres, curves, angles, and proportions intuit the early laws of aesthetics to recast our modern theory of beauty into the simplicity, order, and harmony born out of classical antiquity’s artistic principles.
With earthen minerals and composites of resin, gypsum, cement, and stone, Poast builds sculptural vessels, furniture, and objets d’art in her atelier in Norway. Her artworks serve the interior design trade, private art and design collectors, and retailers internationally.
Working with materials is natural to Poast, having grown up with curls and curious shapes of wood underfoot in an acclaimed violin luthier’s workshop. The workshop is where she played, and her play grew quite inevitably into her work. She studied art and business in Wisconsin, USA, and was informed by interests in neuroscience, metaphysics, music, dance, and literature. In 2009 Poast emigrated to Europe, which offered her profound views of both modern design and centuries-old craft work.
Her self-staged photographs and films tell the story of her artistic influence amidst the stormy Nordic land- and seascapes. Gestural and cinematic, her images depict her as someone who owns her own narrative with a dignity, a sensuality, an audacity, and an intellectual playfulness that writes the pictures.
