Laur Rose Laur Rose is an American artist whose career spans more than five decades, marked by extensive exhibition history, formal training in the United States and Europe, and a lifelong engagement with color, form, and the natural world. Raised with early memories of sun-drenched Guanajuato, Mexico, Rose’s work has been deeply influenced by travel throughout Mexico and the American Southwest—regions whose light, color, and sense of surprise continue to inform her visual language. Rose received her early art education at the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1965) and the Art Students League of New York (1966), followed by studies at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts (1967–1969) and Le Grande Chaumière in Paris (1969). She earned her BFA from the University of Arizona School of Fine Arts in 1971. Beginning in the 1970s, Rose exhibited widely across Arizona, New Mexico, and New York, with representation by galleries including Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (New York), Elaine Horwitch Galleries (Scottsdale), and The Rentschler Gallery (Tucson). From 1990 to 1997, she exhibited under the name L. Rosenstock, showing at venues such as Casa de Artistas (Scottsdale), Monsoon Gallery (Bisbee), Jane Hamilton Fine Arts (Bisbee), and the Huachuca Art Association (Sierra Vista). Between 2012 and 2025, her work appeared in galleries and institutions including Xanadu Gallery (Scottsdale), Tubac Center for the Arts, Tang Gallery (Bisbee), OnSite (Brooklyn), Wild Holly Gallery (Carefree), Mesquite Grove Gallery (Tubac and Patagonia), Global Arts Gallery (Patagonia), Cactus Wren Gallery (Tubac), 55 Main Gallery (Bisbee), and the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild (Tucson). In 2026, her work will be shown at Cobalt Gallery in Tubac, Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, and Global Arts Gallery in Patagonia.Rose has received multiple Best of Show awards from the Huachuca Art Association and the Tubac Center for the Arts. She continues to live and work in the Southwest, where landscape and wildlife remain central to her practice. (Solo exhibitions available upon request) Artist StatementSome of my earliest memories are of sun-drenched Guanajuato, Mexico. I have traveled extensively—often through Mexico—and its color, surprise, and vitality live in the deepest recesses of my imagination. As an artist, I seek that single line, that shape, that color, that form which brings order to a chaotic world. The mystery lies in distilling experience into something essential—capturing a truth of my time on earth through gesture, structure, and intuition. Wild animals appear frequently in my work, not only as subjects of beauty, but as symbols of intelligence, humor, and resilience. I am deeply aware of the environmental changes affecting their survival, and I hope my work honors both their spirit and their vulnerability. Through my art, I aim to balance playfulness with reverence, abstraction with recognition, and memory with presence.