"We are all buried treasure."
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About A. Laura Brody |
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"My works draw from the history of art: the flowing shapes of Art Nouveau, the embellishments of the Victorians and the line quality of Klimt and Schiele. These sculptures are conceived with a commitment to social justice and are inspired by the spirit of scientific discovery. They are meant to encourage conversation and to inspire radical rethinking of the meanings of disability and adaptive aids."
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Laura Brody sculpts for the human body and its vehicles. She developed and curates Opulent Mobility, a series of exhibits that re-imagine disability as opulent and powerful. Her art has been shown at ACE/121 Gallery, Brea Gallery, the Charles River Museum of Industry, Westbeth Center For the Arts, California State University Northridge, Gallery Expo, the Dora Stern Gallery at Arts Unbound, and The World of Wearable Art.
Ms. Brody works as a professional costume maker and designer, an artist, and as a teacher. She is passionate about reuse, sustainability, and re-imagining disability. Shout Out LA article on A. Laura Brody, artist, teacher, and founder/curator of Opulent Mobility Backlot Action Force podcast interview with Ms. Brody about the problems of fast fashion |
Press
Interview with A. Laura Brody in CREATE! Magazine, 2018. Photo by David Robkin.
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Interview of A. Laura Brody on the podcast "Who Lives Like This", 2019. Photo by Stephanie Shanks.
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Interview with A. Laura Brody in Voyage LA, 2018. Photo by Heidi Marie Photography.
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exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITS:
2018 Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2017 917 Garage, Silverlake, CA 2012 Monte Cristo Club, Los Angeles, CA CURATION: 2020 Opulent Mobility 2020 online 2019 Dora Stern Gallery, NJ 2018 Thymele Arts, Hollywood, CA 2017 www.opulentmobility.com 2015 California State Northridge’s West Gallery, Northridge, CA 2013 Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA GROUP EXHIBITS: 2020 Brea Gallery, Brea, CA Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2019 ACE/121 Gallery, Glendale, CA 2018 Arroyo Arts Collective at ACE/121 Gallery Brea Gallery, Brea, CA 2015 Westbeth Center for the Arts, NY Schkapf Theater and Incubation Center, Hollywood, CA 2014 11:11- A Creative Collective, West Hills, CA 2013 Green Public Art, San Diego, CA. 2011 & 2013 Summerset Festival of the Arts, Baraboo, WI. 2012 Encore Arts 4 at Sauk County Arts, Baraboo, WI. Gallery Expo, Long Beach, CA. World of Wearable Art, Wellington, NZ 2011 EcoLogicalART Gallery, LA, CA. Rico Adair Gallery, North Hollywood, CA. 2010-2011 Charles River Museum of Industry, Waltham, MA. |
Teaching and Talks
INSTRUCTOR:
2018-20 Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA 2019 ACE/121, Glendale, CA 2013 City of Pasadena Recreation Department, Pasadena, CA 2012 Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA Majestical Roof, Pasadena, CA 2008 UL Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 2007 Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles, CA GUEST SPEAKER/ARTIST: 2017 Disability as Spectacle conference UCLA, Los Angeles, CA DisArt Symposium, Grand Rapids, MI 2015 Perspectives on Disability Studies at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 2011-2014 Summerset Festival of the Arts, Baraboo, WI. 2012 The Event Formerly Known as Nerd Nite, LA, CA. Toi Whaakari Drama School, Wellington, NZ. 2010 Los Angeles Visionaries, Clifton’s Cafeteria, LA, CA. 2006 USITT, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL. |
Costume Design
FILM DESIGN:
2010 Purgatory, Inc. 2008 House of Bones 2006 Marry Me 2005 The Call of Cthulhu SELECTED COSTUME DESIGN: THEATER & DANCE 2011 The Crucible 2010 Fearful Symmetries 2010 11, September 2009 Tent Meeting The Hostage 2008 State of LA Danse Masters on the Movies 2007 Loyal Women B4 I Wake Twelfth Night Power Henry IV, Part I Full technical costume resume available upon request |
Staple Draping by A. Laura Brody is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Opulent Mobility by A. Laura Brody is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License