Lawre Stone works across painting, works on paper, textile, and installation to build an image world that sits at the threshold between the seen and the felt. Her paintings conjure landscapes that are not quite of this world — otherworldly in atmosphere yet rooted in close observation of natural phenomena: the petals of a dying flower, a broken chunk of iceberg, the shimmering surface of a polluted waterway, a vital organ under pressure. These observations become a personal lexicon, translated through washes, spills, and slabs of saturated color into spaces that move fluidly between the scale of the microscopic and the vast. Stone's practice is grounded in a tradition of spiritual abstraction — one she traces through a modernist matriarchy that includes Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Joan Mitchell, and Elizabeth Murray. Working within and beyond their legacy, she pursues abstraction's capacity to render both observed and internalized experience, asking what must be discarded and what must be carried forward in an expanding notion of beauty. Drawing and gesture coexist in her work: the cognitive precision of line joined to the emotional force of paint. Stone's work has been exhibited at Tanja Grunert Gallery, Hudson; Russell Janis Projects, Brooklyn; Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham; and Art Omi, Ghent, among other venues. Earlier presentations include PS1 Institute for Contemporary Art, Queens; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; and White Columns, New York. She has participated in NADA Foreland and received a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation/NEA Fellowship in Painting. Lawre Stone received an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is Associate Director of Bard MFA and serves on the Board of Directors of Millay Arts. Stone lives and works in Columbia County, New York.