About the Artist
A mostly self-taught artist, Laurie Burton's artistic path has taken her from drawing and painting to mixed media sculpture, and stylistically, from realistic to surreal realism and conceptual. Drawn to the patina of old, rusty cars, trucks, and the decayed and discarded items often considered junk in general, Laurie looks for the connections between these items and the human experience, sometimes it is as simple as a similarity in function, but othertimes there is a deeper and more emotional connection. She uses these found objects in her sculpture along with clay, wood, paper mache, and paint, to form raw pieces that portray human emotions, strengths, weaknesses, and inner conflicts. It is these idiosyncrasies that are the foundation of who we are as individuals, and also the most interesting and often elusive elements that Laurie attempts to capture in art.
Laurie has a BBA from Mississippi State University where she majored in Marketing and minored in Fine Art. Find Laurie on facebook and learn more about her, her dog Ripley, and her art.
Laurie has a BBA from Mississippi State University where she majored in Marketing and minored in Fine Art. Find Laurie on facebook and learn more about her, her dog Ripley, and her art.
Exhibitions & Shows
2025 Bi-State Juried Art Show, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2025 Solo Exhibition, Rosenzweig Gallery, Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, MS
2025 Cotton District Arts Festival Juried Art Show, Mississippi State University Visual Arts Center, Starkville, MS
2024 Branching Out, Women's Group Exhibition & Pop Up Show, Cotton District, Starkville, MS
2023 Cotton District Arts Festival Juried Art Show, Mississippi State University Visual Arts Center, Starkville, MS
2023 Bi-State Juried Art Show, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2022 Cotton District Arts Festival Juried Art Show, Mississippi State University Visual Arts Center, Starkville Area Arts Concil, Starkville, MS
2019 Cotton District Arts Festival Juried Art Show, Mississippi State University Visual Arts Center, Starkville Area Arts Council, Starkville, MS
2019 Solo Exhibition, Greater Starkville Development Partnership Gallery, Starkville Area Arts Council, Starkville, MS
2019 Bi-State Juried Art Show, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2018 Scrambled Art Bowl, Uptown Coffee, Yoknapatawpha Arts Council -Oxford, MS
2018 Cedars Juried Art Show, The Cedars - Fondren Renaissance Foundation, Jackson, MS
2017 Cedars Juried Art Show, The Cedars - Fondren Renaissance Foundation, Jackson, MS
2017 Bi-State Juried Art Show, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2017 Cotton District Arts Festival Juried Art Show, Starkville, MS
2016 Cedars Juried Art Show, The Cedars - Fondren Renaissance Foundation, Jackson, MS
2016 Bi-State Juried Art Show, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2016 Group Exhibition, "Poignant Translations of Life in Mississippi", Eula Bass Art Gallery, Jones County Junior College, MS
2016 International Group Exhibition, "Luso-American Surrealism in the 20th Century", Cullis Wade Depot Gallery, Mississippi State University
2015 Group Exhibition, "Dreams & Delusions", Colvard Student Union Art Gallery, Mississippi State University
2014 Group Exhibition, "Surreal Strangeness", WildRose Studio & Gallery, Starkville, MS
2014 Solo Exhibition, "Heady Mettle", Colvard Student Union Art Gallery, Mississippi State University
2013 Market Street Festival Juried Art Show, Columbus, MS
2012 Cotton District Arts Festival Juried Art Show, Starkville, MS
2011 Cotton District Arts Festival Juried Art Show, Starkville, MS
2009 Prairie Arts Festival, Juried Art Show, West Point, MS
Awards & Recognition
2023 Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian Museum of Art, Award of Distinction
2022 Cotton District Arts Festival, Juried Art Show, 2nd Place Award
2017 Cotton District Arts Festival, Juried Art Show, Merit Award
2009 Prairie Arts Festival, Juried Art Show, 3rd Place
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