Laurel Fulton CV

STATEMENT:

My work is based around ideas of human connection, tools or apparatuses, and love.  We connect and communicate through our bodily senses, reaching out to one another through sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Through our interpersonal interactions we seek to relate our ideas, beliefs, questions, and identity to other people.  What communicate is interpreted by another in a multitude of ways which makes it inherently faulty. This break down of communication from one person to the other leaves a metaphorical gap between us. The apparatuses and images I create seek to make this intangible gap, tangible. The apparatuses physically connect the participants and maintain separation because of the space the apparatuses inhabit, speaking to our want to connect and our inability to do so fully. They are all, in sense, to do with how we communicate with the other in romantic, platonic, and familial relationships. The images I take are stills in these performative acts where the body engages the jewelry and objects physically. The images often capture moments of almost connection between two bodies or a connection of the body to an object. Freezing it and codifying it to the moment of the in-between. Where the two bodies never meet physically or metaphorically, and the object and the body never finish their act, frozen in the almost. 

BIO:

Laurel Fulton is an object and image maker originally from Colorado. Fulton received her BA from the University of Northern Colorado in 2011 and her MFA from the University of Georgia in 2020. During the interim of attending school she taught public school art for four years and was awarded an artist in residence position for 14 months at Pocosin School of Fine Craft. Following her graduation in 2020 she worked as the Zoom Workshop Coordinator and Deputy Director at Pocosin. After leaving her position at Pocosin she taught at Grand Valley State University in Allendale Michigan, teaching 3D foundations and jewelry & metalsmithing for two years. Currently located in Rochester New York, Fulton is tenure track faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology.