The Art Department is holding the next 25'-26' gallery opening with Fractured Whispers: Mediations in Paper and Shadow.

This exhibition explores the use of paper as a medium. Using traditional drawing and hand-cutting techniques, works created result in contemporary 2D and 3D relief compositions.  The opening reception is on Thursday, November 6th from 5-8 PM.

Artist: Laura Makare

Further Description of the Exhibit:

The beauty lies within the tedious process of meticulously piercing the paper, an obsessive quality that implies and communicates a constant shift between what is seen and what is remembered. Hand-tool manipulation documents fractals/abstract natural patterns to inspire physical constructions and manageable compositions that appear in the paper. Patterns create an asymmetrical balance that explores the interconnections of the natural world. 

Line, form, and definition are apparent through the body of work: meticulous drawings of cut-paper compositions dissect qualities of shape-shifting patterns; shadows emphasize intangible planes through lighting engaging each viewer through the presentation of micro and macro compositions. The flow and movement determine the experience and an interpretation—a strong, yet unexplainable emotion. The drawings become the cut-paper, the cut-paper the drawings. 

Through both drawings and hand-cut paper, the viewer experiences artistic beauty and complexity, relevant to how they understand the natural world. Compositions extend boundaries of the square plane and construct narratives that connect to existential consciousness. The paper is identity. Through obsessed drawing processes – with memory playing a role – the paper preserves a mental metamorphosis. Delicate forms and infinite fractals are the dualities that demonstrate strength and fragility, but also artistic beauty and spiritual complexity. The result is a gentle expression of poetic composition achieved through the redundant, rigorous, and meditative process. 

The exhibit will be on view from 11/06/25 - 11/28/25.

If you have any additional questions, please contact:

Julie Lambert

Professor of Art

lamberj732@macomb.edu