LAURIE SERMOS

Laurie Sermos' color photographs often deal with the visible intersection of natural and created environments. Within these modern landscape images, nature or constructed environments of nature are represented as places to be considered and looked at. The environments photographed are often places built with an intended functionality. However through the act of photography, we are able to pause and engage with these environments in a way that allows for a different kind of reflection. Laurie was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1977. She was raised in New Jersey, and there on car rides to Newark airport first became interested in natural landscapes changed by industrial structures. She received her MFA from Bard College in 2006, where she also studied in a master class with Stephen Shore. She has exhibited her work nationally and abroad. Laurie currently teaches photography at Rutgers University, and has also taught with the University of Georgia's studies abroad program in Cortona, Italy. She lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
www.lauriesermos.com