About Laura Roosevelt | Triune Studio LLC

Discovery

Material, Gesture, and the Poetics of Abstraction

Laura Roosevelt’s practice occupies a distinctive position within contemporary American

abstraction. Her paintings are constructed through a cumulative process in which layered

color, atmospheric gradation, and textured surfaces form an intimate yet architectonic

field. Roosevelt works through addition and erasure, building her compositions slowly until

the canvas reveals a balanced tension between intuition and formal control.

Her approach resonates with mid-century American abstraction, while remaining rooted

in a deeply personal vocabulary. Color operates not simply as hue but as emotional

presence. Texture becomes evidence of time, repetition, and the physicality of making.

Her surfaces invite forensic looking. Beneath each chromatic plane is the visible trace of

earlier decisions, adjustments, and hesitations.

Though Roosevelt descends from a family central to American political and cultural

history, her work is not an illustration of lineage. Instead, the Roosevelt legacy appears

as a conceptual influence. Echoing Eleanor Roosevelt’s belief that the arts are an

essential component of public life, Laura founded the LR Art House as a site for

interdisciplinary exchange. Within this context, her paintings function as both aesthetic

objects and conceptual anchors, establishing the visual and intellectual tone of the space.

My work unfolds in layers of color, memory, and emotional clarity. I build my paintings slowly, one decision settled upon another, until the surface becomes a quiet architecture of feeling. Although I come from one of America's most storied families, my artistic identity has been shaped not by lineage but by discipline. My practice is rooted in abstraction, where I hold intuition, restraint, and risk in equal measure.

My canvases reveal a world of texture and atmosphere. Colors shift like internal weather. Brushwork rises and recedes. A painting might appear serene at first glance, only to reveal the tension beneath its surface. These are works that invite close looking. They reward patience. They are constructed through a process that is as much excavation as creation.

I founded the LR Art House on the belief that art is a civic force. The space is a living expression of that idea, echoing the conviction of my great-grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, that culture is essential to democratic life. Within the Art House, my paintings and metal sculptures set the tone. They anchor the room. They establish a field of vision where conversation and imagination can take root.

For me this body of work marks a significant moment in my ongoing exploration of abstract form. It presents new work that expands my inquiry into color, structure, and perceptual depth. It reflects a full command of my developed language, as I move with confidence and clarity into the next chapter of evolution within abstraction.

Laura Roosevelt

A Return to Pure Color

Laura Roosevelt’s artistic voice has always been rooted in a lifelong conversation with color and texture. Long before exhibitions and museum partnerships, she understood pigment as language and surface as a living field. Her conviction has never changed. She believes color is not applied but revealed. Texture is not an effect but a memory. It is the core philosophy that shaped her early studio years and carries forward into her first major body of abstract work in more than eight years.

These new paintings are a return to origin. Her abstractions remain the clearest expression of her inner rhythm, the place where instinct overtakes structure and her hand moves as freely as thought. The canvases strike with the immediacy of jazz and the precision of memory. They arrive charged and breathing, as if the color had been waiting beneath the surface for her to release it.

Her palette has deepened. The reds hold a slow burn. The blues feel weighted and aqueous. Whites drift like vapor, softening the edges of bolder fields. Small flashes of green pulse through selective works, unexpected yet essential, like truths recognized before they are understood. None of these choices are decorative. They come from lived experience, turned into color. Her surfaces are where her voice is loudest. Laura’s brushwork is deliberate, but her layering is the signature of her hand. She builds her paintings like weather, one atmosphere settling over another. Thin veils hover above dense strata, revealing and concealing forms in the same breath. Texture rises in ridges, softens into mist, or collapses into smoothness. Even in the quietest passages, the canvas holds the history of her touch. You feel the weight of each decision, the ghost of each movement, the sediment of gestures she allowed to remain. This harmony between restraint and release is the mark of an artist who trusts her own vision completely.

Throughout her years traveling from coast to coast, her private practice deepened quietly. She filled pages with color fragments, small strokes, studies of light falling across glass, and patterns hidden in weathered surfaces. These elements became the raw material of her new abstractions. On the canvas they transform into a visual language that is entirely her own, elemental and contemporary at once.

Scale matters in this new chapter. Some works pull inward with intimate detail, while the larger pieces stretch wide enough for the full reach of her body. She steps into them physically. She works until the external world disappears and the surface becomes a place she inhabits. Nothing about these paintings is cautious. Everything feels lived and necessary.

What defines this moment in her career is emotional clarity. There is fearlessness in the way she builds her layers, allowing the paint to carry memory without explanation. Her abstractions are atmospheric and architectural, soft and assertive, grounded yet constantly shifting. They are not created to be decoded. They are meant to be felt.

For those who have followed her evolution, this collection brings her arc into focus. She has joined the compositional discipline shaped through narrative work with the intuitive color and textural language that has always been her home. Her maturity is evident in her control, but even more in her willingness to release control when the painting asks for it.

Laura Roosevelt stands at a rare point where instinct and discipline meet without friction. These new works mark the beginning of a defining period, a moment when everything she has lived and everything she has learned converge into a single vocabulary of color, texture, and quiet power. People may speak of this as a reemergence. But those who know her understand she never left. She was simply gathering the layers for what comes next.

Laura Roosevelt | Triune Studio LLC

Dallas, TX

Statement