We’re pleased to announce the representation of Laurie Frick
Laurie Frick is a contemporary artist known for her work that intersects data, technology, and art. She creates intricate and visually engaging pieces that explore the intersection of human behavior, data visualization, and personal identity. Frick often incorporates data from her own life, such as sleep patterns, daily routines, and personal experiences, into her artwork. Her pieces often involve intricate patterns, vibrant colors, and meticulous arrangements.
One of her signature styles involves using grids and geometric patterns to represent data points. She has worked with a variety of materials, including wood, paper, fabric, and digital displays, to create her data-driven artworks.
Laurie Frick's work raises questions about how we collect, interpret, and interact with data in our daily lives, and how this data can be transformed into artistic expressions. Her pieces blur the lines between art and science, and she has exhibited her work in galleries and exhibitions internationally
We will be showcasing her latest works at Art on Paper NY September 7-10, 2023, booth F10
Blue Hear. 8x10 ft installation in the Anschutz Medical Sciences building on the University of Colorado Campus in Aurora, CO. 16 overlapping kiln-fired fused glass panels installed in 2022
Today, Data is everywhere, measuring and quantifying our actions and behaviors every second of our life. Laurie Frick made the step from this cold quantitative vision of our human life to a truly qualitative one by reinterpreting data collected into large handmade patterned wall installation.
A quick talk with Laurie Frick
Michele Mariaud. You qualified yourself as a “Data Artist “, does this mean that you are linking the scientific word [world?] with the artistic one, thus giving the first one a more tangible and humane aspect ?
Laurie Frick. For me, the scientific world and the art world is all one thing. I see beauty in scientific output, mathematical patterns and data patterns. It really struck me over the last decade that once we all started carrying a phone everywhere we shifted from being mostly anonymous to almost completely known, tracked, quantified in ways that are invisible to us. Most people were horrified, but I saw an amazing opportunity to understand who we are. That in the future all the data about us could be become art, patterned art as a way to understand who we are.
PALE BLUSH (2023). Watercolors. 16 x 19". Framed. Gallery price: $2,200
Michele Mariaud “Data is like plastic, incredibly useful and horrible at the same time” , we know we need to control and lower our plastic addiction, will you say the same regarding Data?
Laurie Frick. I thought comparing data to plastic was a visceral way to convey our love|hate relationship with data. You’d be surprised how clunky and difficult your daily life would be without data knowing who you are and moving you along swiftly. I have this firm belief that this whole fear of data thing will turn upside down, we will get to a stage where we will want our data, all of it. The real focus will be not trying to hide but trying to actually get more control and own our own data. The battle will be data ownership, not privacy.
ORANGE GREENE (2023). Watercolors. 16 x 19".Framed. Gallery price: $2,200
Michele Mariaud. Is transposing data collection into Art a way to release the pressure from being constantly tracked into our daily lives ?
Laurie Frick. When I launched “Frickbits” more than 10 years ago, it was an iphone app that took your location data and turned it into artful patterns that looked like my watercolor drawings. My mantra was “Take back your data… and turn it into art!” I had thousands of users, and my goal was to show people they could use their own data to peek into a world where they had control and would fight to own their own data. Totally free, I funded the app with a kickstarter campaign and a barter-trade with a hot local digital shop, we gave the app away for 3 years. Then put all the libraries and code on github for anyone to update or use it.
BURNT_ORANGE (2023). Watercolors. 16 x 19". Framed. Gallery price: $2,200
Michele Mariaud. What kind of Data do you prefer to use for your artworks : personal ones ?
Laurie Frick. I hunt for data that gets at the unconscious patterns of an individual human, things that display a unique pattern of who you are, something of a portrait of you. So data such as sleep patterns, time tracking, location tracking all have a unique rhythm and organic pattern of human behavior. I often use myself, sometimes I use imagined time, and memory of time to play with the patterns that data can produce.
Austin_Outside. (2023). Handmade and cut paper on 9 alumalite panels. 72 x 72 x 0.75”.. Gallery price $14,400
Michele Mariaud. During Art on Paper, what artworks are you planning to present : what kind of data on which medium ?
Laurie Frick. I have 2 sets of work at Art on Paper. A series of watercolor and ink drawings and a large 6x6 ft collage work. Both are based on time.
The collage work is one of a series of works I have made over the past several years, they are time consuming to make. This piece is part of the imagined time series. Based on how you remember time forward and backward, what are the small snips of information and details that you retain over time? Consider how much you take in over a day, what can you recall, what do you remember. How do the bits of time that make up a 24 hour day feel as your consider them in your mind going forwards and backwards?
The watercolor/ink works are about time, divisions of time over 24 hours, the unconscious shift from one activity to the next, sized and color-coded by activity. I’ve always thought the perfect painting was like 24 hours with large quiet areas when you sleep, small beautiful moments like eating an ice-cream sundae coupled with tough-urgent spots like an argument on the phone. The way you spend your time in a day , those time divisions can produce a compelling painting. I’ve worked with time tracking data over and over and have this idea that unconscious choices of how you spend your time give insight to your innate behavior and personality, an unfiltered view into your ‘self’. These are trying to capture time data in a form more like a painting rather than linear tracking.
BLUE_YELLOW. (2023). Watercolors. 21x26". Framed. Gallery price: $2,700