Creator Bio
Geoffrey Laurence
b. 1949
Geoffrey Laurence was born in New Jersey and grew up in England. An illustrator, graphic designer, and interior designer, he turned to painting full time in 1992. Much of his work focuses on the human figure, his own Jewish heritage, and the Holocaust. Laurence is the recipient of the Walter Erlebacher Award (1995) and the Robert Rauschenberg Award (2004). He moved to the United States in 1992 and lives in New Mexico.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Tefillin (Triptych)
Laurence’s Tefillin questions both western art and patriarchal aspects of Judaism. The triptych portrays parts of women’s naked bodies, bound in the leather straps of tefillin, the small black leather…