Laura Jay Ulery is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and emotional archivist whose work bridges sculpture, painting, and poetic narrative. With a background in theater, architecture, and media design, she creates layered, symbolic pieces that explore elemental themes, neurodivergent experience, and ritual storytelling. Her practice often incorporates blacklight-reactive paint, wax, and tactile materials to evoke presence, transformation, and legacy. Laura’s work invites reflection and resonance—offering viewers quiet companions for grief, resilience, and reclamation. She is based in Ohio, with creative ties to NYC and national arts communities.
My art is shaped by lived experiences with ADHD, depression, manic episodes, fibromyalgia, and heart disease. These conditions do not define me, but they inform the emotional depth and resilience of my work. Each piece is a ritual of survival and transformation — turning vulnerability into presence, and struggle into beauty. My practice is a testament to endurance, created to inspire and help more to do the same.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My work is a devotional practice—an emotional archive built through layered mixed media and dual-light installations. I create from a place of survival, guided by intuition, memory, and ritual. Living with multiple disabilities, including ADHD, PTSD, heart disease, and rheumatoid arthritis, I paint by candlelight and often in silence. This slowed, intentional process allows me to access emotional truths that are otherwise obscured.
I use materials like clay, wax, and blacklight-reactive pigment to construct sculptural environments that shift under UV light. These dual-light pieces reveal hidden layers—echoes of grief, resilience, and transformation. My architectural training informs the spatial composition of each work, while my background in graphic arts and theater shapes its emotional atmosphere and symbolic clarity.
Themes of loss, rebirth, and spiritual presence recur throughout my practice. I explore how trauma leaves traces, and how light—literal and metaphorical—can reveal what’s been buried. My goal is to create immersive, accessible experiences that invite viewers to witness the unseen and reclaim their own emotional narratives.
My mantra, and the heart of my work: I am here.
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