Laura Fischman is a Boston-based artist who paints the unnoticed, imperfect and often fragmented topographies of everyday life. Honoring often-overlooked spaces and moments by exploring the humanity embedded within their flaws, and the ruin resulting from the passage of time. She creates a moment of pause, of contemplation and even of confusion, where viewers can both locate themselves and feel lost at the same time. Evoking the abject, the quotidian, the isolated, the hopeful and even the beautiful; it is the interplay of these emotions, longing in the purest sense, that she hopes to convey her work.

Fischman has shown her work in the Courtyard Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through the Students-Curate-Students exhibit, at the 808 Gallery at Boston University, at Gallery 263, at the Nave Gallery, Fourth Wall Project, and at Gallery Benoit in Boston, among others. She has had a solo show at the Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery at the Essex Art Center, and has an upcoming solo show, Liminal Spaces, at the McGladrey Gallery at Bentley University in May/June 2013, as well as a solo show at Gallery Benoit in August/September 2013. A 2013 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University MFA program, Fischman received the Boit Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2012.