Laurie Fader (RAiR 2025-26) Solo Exhibition at AMoCA

A solo exhibition by Roswell Artist-in-Residence Laurie Fader (RAiR 2025-26) at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art

November 14 - December 28, 2025

Artist Talk and Opening Reception
Friday November 14, 5:30-7:00 P.M.
Stay for the public dinner, Friday November 14, approximately 7:00 P. M. | $10 Adult | $5 Child

To tackle the colossal subject of climate change, Fader paints worlds inhabited by creatures whose interactions read as cautionary tales. While the mood may be foreboding, they glow and are rich in texture and sensation, featuring smaller narratives woven into the larger movements. They also have a comic macabre quality, mirroring our own derangement. The paintings exist in a suspended time, a dystopia, where humans are no longer the dominant species. Hints of world events and environmental devastation are present, but they are not fully understood or explained. These narratives are playful yet profound, inviting yet disorienting. As dualities unfold, the paintings create a parallel reality of recognition, memory, and hope.

Fader is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Pamela Joy Johnson Southern Visual Fellowship from the MacDowell Foundation, two Great Meadows Foundation grants, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Award, a Board of Trustees Artists Fellowship award from NYU, and the Helen Winternitz Award for excellence in painting from the Yale School of Art.

She has attended residencies at MacDowell, Jentel Foundation, Willapa Bay AIR, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Scuola Grafica di Venezia, the American Academy in Rome, and The International School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy. She also held fellowships in France (Alfred & Trafford Klots Residency) and in Haiti.

Recent exhibitions include venues such as The Lockwood Gallery and Susan Eley Gallery in Hudson, NY; Cavalier Gallery in New York City; Cody Gallery in Arlington, VA; Radiator Gallery in Long Island City; and The Painting Center, Carter Burden Gallery, and First Street Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Her work has been discussed in Two Coats of Paint, Artspiel, The Louisville Review, Louisville Magazine, and in Achim Nowak’s podcast “My Fourth Act” and The New York Times.

Born in Pittsburgh, Fader was based in Louisville, Kentucky before coming to Roswell to be a resident for one year at the RAiR Foundation. Fader earned a BS from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. She taught at Pratt Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Goucher College, and was Chair of the Kentucky College of Art and Design at Spalding University in Louisville. She is now a full-time practicing artist.

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