Laura Bauer is a New York based contemporary artist with more than three decades of dedicated studio practice. Guided by an intuitive process, she allows materials to lead the conversation, embracing discovery as an essential part of making. Self taught, her work has evolved through a lifelong commitment to experimentation, intuition, and material exploration.

While her practice has included ceramics, painting, and encaustic, it now centers on sculpture and installation, where materials themselves have become central to her work. Working with both traditional and unexpected materials, Bauer transforms everyday and discarded materials into abstract forms that invite curiosity, interaction, and new ways of seeing.

Her evolving body of work includes modular sculptures and installations that challenge conventional ideas of permanence through movement, transformation, and viewer engagement. Rather than repeating ideas, each body of work builds naturally upon the last, reflecting an ongoing investigation into the expressive potential of materials and the possibilities they reveal.