Laurie Fader
Origin Stories
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
Cautionary tales unfold in surreal, dystopian landscapes in Laurie Fader’s recent work. She uses light, structure and macabre humor to set up a parable that reflects the gravity of our contemporary condition, while offering an alluring, dreamlike escape.
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 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”.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA, 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, MICA, and Goucher College, and was Chair of the Kentucky College of Art and Design at Spalding University in Louisville.
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