BARBARA LAUBE  | Kindling a Moonlit Sun | MELANIE’S OFFICE

September 21 - October 24, 2025

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these works are a way of repairing, an offering and a form of prayer 
they are about questioning and the acceptance of not knowing
they teach me and I follow 
they reflect my inner and outer life 

I grew up the daughter of an airline pilot 
I contrast thick oil paint of earth and ground 
with thin washes of air and sky

the paintings are alive and ever changing
checkered farmland as seen from the air
facets of a loved one’s psyche 
orbs in the rain forest with a shaman
visions of finished paintings
the view outside my studio window

unprimed linen reinforcing their transience
they are an exhalation of ego, leaving a soft breath
sometimes not so soft
 

Barbara Laube is largely self-taught. She has studied in Italy, France, and Germany. She also had the good fortune to study in New York with Joop Sanders, a founding member, along with Willem de Kooning and Milton Resnick, of the American Abstract Expressionist group. She has studied at Pratt Institute, The New York Studio School, and The School of Visual Arts.

Laube’s paintings have been featured in shows in France, New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington State. Among these exhibitions are Analog Diary in Beacon, New York; Zurcher Gallery, NY; New York Artists Equity Gallery, New York; The Painting Center, New York; M. David & Co., Brooklyn; David Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn; Life on Mars, Brooklyn; Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York; Wave Hill House, Bronx; Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock, New York; Goldscopophilia Gallery, New Jersey; Pierro Gallery, New Jersey; The Hope Horn Gallery, The University of Scranton, Pennsylvania; Runnells Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico; and Long Island University, C.W.Post Campus, New York. Laube lives and works in Riverdale, New York.