laura dobrota

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Laura Dobrota, is currently pursuing an MFA at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.  Her work includes painting and drawing processes, photography, sculpture, installations, and at times overlaps several mixed mediums at once.  Currently, Dobrota is working with sculptures, drawings, and paintings that engage the use of materials such as embroidery thread wrapped in wire, paper mâché, ball point pen, marker, cloth, watercolor, and acrylic.  Her practice engages in observations found in the natural environment, currently, birds’ nests and their assemblages made from materials found in the environments in which they live.   Dobrota then composes her own nests’ mimicking the unique nests’ studied, using man made materials.  The study of how forms transpire and interconnect in nature compels her curiosity and inspiration for learning more about the natural world, and understanding how progressions in nature occur.