Artist's Bio

Lara Loutrel was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended Massachusetts College of Art from 1996 to 2000. In 1998 she was one of two printmakers to win a Foundation Award. She received a BFA in Printmaking in 2000.

In 2001 she set up a print studio in Fort Point, Boston. She dedicated her time there to experimenting with different intaglio techniques, many of them non-traditional. She shared these methods and the resulting new bodies of work during the yearly Fort Point Open Studios.

In late 2004 her working methods became characterized by the combination of different print techniques that create immediately viewable results. This allowed her to work at a rapid pace and enabled a dialogue with the process as the image was being created.

In 2007, her studio practice disrupted by urban re-gentrification and by the disquieting creep of new bourgeoise influences into her life, she began experimenting with 3-dimensional cardboard works, constructed experimental shirts and a dress, and staged the Simulated Consumption of the Elegant Dessert in an unfinished wall of her studio. She began work on the Arkh prints, in which the print is the structure, rather than a representation of the structure.

Currently, she is continuing to develop the ideas begun with the Arkh prints in a new group of works, and continuing her experiments with 3-dimensional structures.