Mimi Lauter

Mimi Lauter

b. 1982, San Francisco
lives in Los Angeles

Originally from San Francisco, Mimi Lauter earned a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Lauter currently resides in Los Angeles, where she creates works on paper of widely varying scale, from the intimate to the expansive, with soft oil pastels in a saturated, riotous palette. Timeless imagery hints towards the figure, subconscious landscapes, plants and foliage, seas and skies, and the personal and universal. Her drawings nods to a European Modernist history with deep roots in religious and spiritual painting, from Medieval paintings and tapestries to the work of artists like Odilon Redon and Hilma Af Klint. Lauter’s work is included in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her solo exhibitions include Symphony No. 1, Blum & Poe, New York (2020); Apres Nous Le Deluge, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2019); and Sensus Oxynation, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2018).

Mimi Lauter, Untitled (Devotional Landscape), 2018. Oil pastel and soft pastel on paper, 33 1/8 x 28 x 1 3/4 inches. © Mimi Lauter. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo. Photo by Joshua White