New York-based artist and designer Laura Lobdell has lived in California and Hong Kong, and currently resides in New York with her Japanese Chin named Enso. Committed to creating an artisanal collection made in New York, Lobdell makes work for her collectors to celebrate every day. Lobdell’s jewelry practice derived from the found, everyday objects used in her paintings and sculptures. She has exhibited at PS 1, DCKT Gallery, New York, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The National Arts Club of Washington, D.C., the Louis Stern Gallery in Los Angeles and the Art Institute of Chicago. Transforming travel experiences include: visiting master jewelers in Jaipur, India, working with royal lacquer makers in Burma, riding the Trans-Siberian from Beijing to Moscow, textile collecting in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar and trekking in the Nepalese Himalayas and Peruvian Andes. Lobdell is a collector of found objects and vintage textiles, which inspire and inform her work. Lobdell holds an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture artist residency in Maine and AIM at the Bronx Museum.