Mary Laube — The Monarch Review

Mary Laube

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 23:14 — 0 Comments

When I first saw Mary Laube’s paintings in Studio Visit (volume fourteen), they felt familiar in a way that I couldn’t put my finger on. At first they seemed occupied with formal explorations of depth and deception, geometric space, and intricate patterning. They are hard edged or “emotionally distant,” as Laube puts it, so they obliquely delve into their subject: home, or the complex of emotion, memory, and daydreaming that pervade the architecture of home. The void of narrative is filled by your own memory or daydreaming, because, as Gaston Bachelard mused in The Poetics of Space:  “There exists for each one […]