Laura Corallo-Titus received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 1990. Her painting practice revolves around ideas associated with climate and changing perceptions towards land and nature and how it is depicted. Her work has been included in group shows nationally and throughout California and she has also had solo exhibits at San Jose City College Art Gallery, Chappellet Winery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Sanchez Art Center, Acumen Gallery and Tapir Gallery in Berlin in the past decade.

Her work is in public collections such as Monterey Museum, Brand Library and Art Galleries, Crocker Museum, Hewlett Packard and Chappellet Winery. She lives and works in Napa, CA.

Statement

These paintings address changing perceptions toward landscape, the environment and our place in the world.

Initially I was struck by the sense of permanence, vastness and grandeur of traditional landscape painting. In contrast, our contemporary vision is usually momentary; ( a view from a car, plane, train or film), fragmentary or distracted. Traditional depictions of the land and sea display a sense of power, stability, strength… a place to be conquered or conquer. Our dialogue around the environment now is of fragility and impermanence, destruction and loss. Our views of the passing world are frequently distorted

from the glare of a window, a flash of artificial light, the editing of a photograph, political divisiveness.

It is in this procession that nature becomes metaphor for mind. The paintings begin to reflect less on a physical place than as nature as a conduit to an increasingly disordered and disorienting world view. Place and perspective continue to disassociate from a given Image. Natural colors lie uncomfortably next to neon. My intent is to mirror the discord in these realities within the structure and history of painting.