Laura Kimmel (formerly Laura Weyl) is a New York-based filmmaker, photographer, and multi-media artist. Her work explores sexuality, the urban landscape, and analog image manipulations to create visceral, poetic visual worlds. She has been exhibited in galleries and event spaces including Art Basel Miami/ HG Contemporary, Mana Contemporary, Karst Gallery, Untitled Space, Franklin Street Works, and Project One in San Francisco. She is currently the director of Visual Identity at The Box NYC and Soho.
photograph by Rye Desrosiers
My work explores the labyrinth of femininity through ritualistic, performative art making. I journey with my subjects, often trespassing, in pursuit of magical spaces where we can conjure authentic expressions of self outside the bounds of social constructs. Whether channeling sprits in abandoned buildings or evoking our own realms in light and color, my Muses and I use these worlds to escape patriarchal capitalist context and connect to our subliminal feminine.
Education
Wellesley College
BS in Media Arts and Sciences
Academy of Art San Francisco
Cinematography and experimental animation
Selected Publications
2021
THE UNTITLED MAGAZINE
Innovate Issue
2020
VANITY FAIR
Un ballet solitaire à New York
2019
PAGE SIX
Infamous club The Box puts on NSFW Art Basel performance
2018
2016
VICE -The Creators Project
2016
BULLETT Media
2016
Beautiful Savage Editorial
2015
Buscuit Interview
2015
Beautiful Savage Profile of Erotic Photography
2015
Hand Job Magazine
2015
Beautiful Savage Magazine Artist Profile
2014
Greenpointers Article on A$AP MOB
2014
Interview for Dreamgirls NYC on Newish.com
Selected Exhibitions
& Festivals
2021
PHOTOVILLE, NYC
2021
The Untitled Space, NYC
until Oct 2
2021
2021
Domicile Gallery, Los Angeles
2018
KARST gallery
Plymouth, England
9-28-18 to 11-3-18
2018
Robert Miller Gallery
New York City, NY
July 12-14, 2018
2018
PLEASE TOUCH, BODY BOUNDARIES
Mana Contemporary
Jersey City, New Jersey
April 29–August 1, 2018
2017
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
London, England
2017
New Haven, Connecticut
2017
Nasty Women Exhibition/ CHASM NYC
Knockdown Center
NYC
2016
Georges Berges Gallery
SOHO, NYC
2016
HQ Contemporary Gallery Showcase
Art Basel Miami
2016
In The Raw
Untitled Space
NYC
2016
Beaver
Center For Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn
2015
Discharge
Kinfolk 94 Gallery
Williamsburg, NYC
2015
Bishop Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
2015
Popsouk
Webster Hall
NYC
2012
Jewett Arts Center
Wellesley College Experimental Mediums solo show
2011
The ArtOfficial Truth
ProjectOne Gallery
San Francisco
2010
SPIFF international film festival
Brooklyn
STATEMENT:
My work is a visual antidote to commodified femininity. In a world where corporate culture has reduced the female archetype to the passive subject of an advertising campaign, simultaneously commercializing and disempowering Womanhood— I present strong women whose beauty lies in their agency and freedom. I create images of Women that awaken the primacy of our Power to create Life, liberate us from the quotidian, and channel Magic. I document rituals, rites of passage and triumphant moments of pure expression.