Working in series, BenAmots' work embraces the true post-modernist sensibility where subject, style and medium may vary but there is an underlying grounding and confidence built on her classical training.
BenAmots is recipient of numerous awards & fellowship residencies including Genistrelle International Artist Residency & International Contemporary Art Exhibit in Assisi IT, ARTHub International Artist Residency on Rte 66 in AZ, Machine Shop Residency and Exhibit in Colorado. Among other honors, her anti-war project, BATTLE PORTRAITS Wounded Lions Wounded Lambs, earned her Visual Artist of the Year for the region from the PPAC.
As a member of the international roughrubyartscollective.com, she addresses socially driven concerns. Her work appears in major exhibits aimed at creating community dialogue and strength through art.
Artist Bio
New York born painter, Laura BenAmots, spent her formative years in the Middle East and has lived in Colorado since 1998. Dedicated to Art as a vehicle for social change, she is the recipient of numerous awards recognizing her work with emerging artists and serving the underprivileged. A single mother of two grown sons, BenAmots has built her life and career aspiring to create a gentler world full of art.
Her career has included a range of national and international solo, juried and invitational exhibits and honors. Career highlights are listed later on this page.
Having served as Gallery Director at Pikes Peak State College in Colorado for eight years, she continues to teach holding the title of Full Professor of ART at the college.
Books & Publications
EXO-SANCTUARIES a roughrubyartscollective.com project (published by Bijou Art Books)
BEAUTY Otherly Configured (the book.artist published)
BATTLE PORTRAITS Wounded Lions Wounded Lambs (published and distributed by the BAC Art Book Project www.battleportraits.com)
Eros On Canvas: the erotic paintings of Laura BenAmots (co-published by Last Gasp Press in San Francisco, California, and the Smokemuse Press in Colorado).
Education
MFA PA University of the Arts. Studies at U Penn; BFA Tyler College of Art & Architecture. Painting Studies at PA Academy of Fine Art
Select Exhibits & Career Highlights 2024 Seeking Shelter Studio West Gallery, Pikes Peak State College, COS CO 2022 With-In Kreuser Gallery - Auric Gallery, COS CO 2022 EXO-Sanctuaries Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo CO 2019 Abstraction: Women in Art Invitational. Orly's Gallery, CO 2018 Artists in Action Juried exhibit of Activist Art Jurors: Joy Armstrong - Contemporary Curator Colorado College CSFine Arts Center - and Margaret Kasahara - represented by the Sandra Phillips Galley in Denver CO 2018 "Prayer Pieces & Toaster Ovens" The Machine Shop - Juried solo show 2017 The Machine Shop 3-month Artist Studio Residency CO 2017 Stream of Consciousness Invitational Solo Exhibit Kreuser Gallery, CO 2016 PPAC ABE Award honoring exemplary advocacy for emerging artists in the Pikes Peak Region CO 2015 Kingman Art Hub Ariist Resident 3-month International Artist Residency at the Kingman AZ Art Hub 2015 "Icons of the Anonymous Madonna" Invitational Solo Exhibit Kreuser Gallery 2014 2014 International Contemporary Artist Exhibit Le Logge Gallery and International Artists Guide Assisi IT 2014 Artist in Residence 1-month International Artist Residency at the Ginestrelle Arte Studio Assisi, Italy IT 2013 "WAR BRIDES & BATTLE PORTRAITS" Solo Exhibit at the Sangre de Cristo Art Center Museum Pueblo CO 2012 Visual Artist of the Year Pikes Peak Arts Council CO 2012 "BATTLE PORTRAITS Wounded Lions Wounded Lambs" Exhibits including: The Colorado Springs Fine Art Center,Colorado College's Cornerstone IDEA Space, CSU Pueblo Fine Art Gallery
Special thanks to the photographers who have documented my work and events.
Special thanks to photographer Walt Palmer with whom I worked on many projects for many years.
Seeking Shelter photos courtesy of Nick Jenner