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A close up photo of artist Laurie De Jesús Lagares. She faces away from the camera with a neutral expression.

Laurie De Jesús Lagares

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I work in figurative painting. My creative process is nourished by a personal archive of images capturing everyday moments of intimacy: screenshots from my phone, photos of mangroves in Switzerland, and pictures of family members at rest. I bring these images into my paintings because I want to keep the lived moment of intimacy present while also exploring the context in which this intimacy arises. These contexts can exist in the digital space or the physical world, which creates variation in the visual language of my paintings, as the contexts of intimacy are multiple.

Laurie De Jesús Lagares is a visual artist and adjunct professor at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where she studied at the Public School of Fine Arts of Ponce. She holds a Master of Arts from the Institut Kunst Gender Natur (IAGN) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, where she obtained a Bachelor of Humanities with a concentration in Visual Arts. In 2017, she studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts Alonso Cano of the University of Granada in Spain.

Featured Artwork

A gradient from light green to dark green on a rectangular canvas. A phone is painted in the bottom right. On the screen is an image of two people sleeping with medical masks on and sharing a white blanket.
Laurie De Jesús Lagares. Almost There, in a Place That is as Distant as It is Close, 2023. Oil on linen 19 x 12 inches. Image courtesy of Sergio Rojas.
Detail of "Almost there, in a place that is as distant as it is close." Shows two people resting next to each other displayed on a smartphone.
Laurie De Jesús Lagares. Almost There, in a Place That is as Distant as It is Close (detail), 2023. Oil on linen 19 x 12 inches. Image courtesy of Sergio Rojas.
"The painting depicts an intimate moment where my mother and sisters were sleeping during the lockdown in the pandemic of 2020." - Laurie De Jesús Lagares
Laurie De Jesús Lagares. Dormidas, 2022. Oil on polyester, 60 x 40 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.
A painting depicting a planter filled with woody plants and leaves.
Laurie De Jesús Lagares. There is No Place Without an Elsewhere, 2023. Oil on canvas, 6 x 8 feet. Image courtesy of Saturne Camus.