AUDRA WEASER

Audra Weaser is an American painter and sculptor living in Los Angeles, CA. She was raised in Southern California and was inspired early on by the vast seascapes and landscapes suggestive of endless possibility. 

Nature in an abstracted or reflected state has always been an inspiration for Weaser—from the play of light on oceans or streams to mystical forests. Such scenes often evoke powerful, emotionally charged memories that she aims to elicit in the viewer. 

Weaser starts by intuitively building layers of paint over loose charcoal sketches. Once the composition emerges, the artist refines it to a certain point, then obscures it with a veil of white until the initial colors disappear. She then excavates through the layers of paint in a physically intense sanding process that ultimately reveals a dynamic contrast between color and composition; physical form and poetic experience.

Weaser earned her B.F.A. from Laguna College of Art and Design and her M.F.A in painting from Claremont Graduate University. Since then, she has exhibited extensively and her work can be found in private and public collections throughout the world—from New York and San Francisco to Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and Singapore.