Stained glass mosaic portrait of a blue jay bird with a rectangular geometric lime green pattern background.

Blue Jay

Image of a lone woman against a colorful abstract backdrop; repetition of shallow semi-circles suggest movement of time & space, evoking a feeling of aloneness.

Alone in the Past

A painting of a flower's face, green petals with a black outline melting and presenting the form with a human lips slightly open showing a sliver of the front two teeth

Time Again

A collage of scattered pictures on a dark gray background interspersed with text. Pictures feature a young white woman in a dark green shirt and black pants outlining her body with green tape on to the white wall behind her. 
Text reads : 
 if dance is an excuse to practice being
if dance is an excuse to practice being together
here is me practicing alone, together. 

i cant tell you how it feels. 
​maybe i could stand next to you + vibrate

maybe i could stand next to you + vibrate

Encaustic painting on wood panel. Layers of translucent encaustic wax infused with oil and powdered pigments with embedded Washi papers and 23.5K gold powder. Black profile edge.

MAGIC

a young woman in a gold jeweled dress holding a key in one hand and a wand in the other stands above green collaged image of a snake. Above her hang several bats. 

Queen of the Dream Cave

Sixteen half eggshells with artwork inside. Most eggshells have mark making, painting and/or drawings on the inside of the eggshells including fingerprints, geometric shapes, house forms, and text. Others have objects inside including seed forms and a lock of hair.    

Life

Imagine if someone could paint with hand cut glass.  This is a stained glass mosaic of a handful of bright red peonies, reaching upwards towards sunlight, underneath a stormy iridescent gray sky.  The stems of the flowers are long, flat pieces of glass, as well as some pieces of glass turned on their sides that catch the light just so. 

Peonies After the Storm

Image is a social media post about a 1/12th scale diorama of Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mia) showing an exhibit of photographs by Jim Pipkin.  Small wooden artist's manikins are in the scene enjoying the exhibit and taking a selfie.

Big Dreams Gallery 257

A collage including magazine clippings, old photographs, and transfer pens exploring ideas of change and disruption.

Floating

This painting of a young  Laura with vivid green eyes, and flowing red hair, captures her adorned by a hat with white roses, just after she has voted to keep her country a democracy.,

Laura Votes for Democracy

Scanned image of a pink Glossier plastic bubble-wrap case with sliding red sealer.  Inside is a rusted metal razor blade.

relapse prevention

Unidentified abandoned lady against Red - Orange background.

Reader

Abstract painting on a matchbox with found objects (matchstick and lint) in the foreground. 

Lucky Strike

A brightly colored bumblebee on a pink clover blossom with green leaves below it and a blue sky behind.

Bumblebee in Paste Paper

A brightly colored collage of an old golden yellow and orange armchair.

Armchair in Golden Orange Plaid

A black and white photo transfer of my late son with rivers of blue and teal waxes melting into a green field at the bottom, anchored by a metal dragonfly.

Andrew:  River of Tears

An impressionistic mosaic made with Legos of pink legs and blue sea with a hand holding a red beer can in the foreground.

Lego Legs (with beer)

Quilted fabric painted silver with a gold wash over it.
 Red thread stitching around a 1953 Buick hubcap. 

Quilted Cruising

Paper quilling of a multi-colored hummingbird, orange, burgundy, greens, and black, hovering over a yellow petaled flower and bud with green stems, framed in black with fine burgundy line centered in the black. 

Hummingbird Greets the Yellow Flower

A layered print showing a community of navy and yellow round and angled shapes patterned to give the illusion of movement.

Another Day on the Info Transit

A paper collage and acrylic painting honoring history in Burkina Faso, Africa, including Burkinabe, baobab trees, and symbols used in huts in Tiebele village. Earth tone colors and methodical designs.

Honoring the Past

Doggy in a holiday hat hanging out with his friend pink bunny.

Untitled

A painting of a boathouse and rowboat on a lake in dark warm colors of Fall on crumpled paper with the words Places Form Us scattered about in metallic gold.
 

Places Form Us

A collage made of buttons, predominately of orange shades, spelling out the word "up" in a broad Goudy-style font hand sewn on purple sail cloth. 

Button Up #1

A mixed media assembled collage of half circles, cropped sections of circles, rectangles that are made up of a designs inspired by mold growing on coffee and white negative space between those forms. A mixture of abstract mold design in geometric shapes filling up the square white background.

Mold on Coffee

A scale model of an outdoor sculpture depicting a grove of red pillars and the sky reflected in a series of mirrors located within the field. 

Scale model for The Stand

A painting with blue, fingerpainted clouds, above a round, yellow, mono-printed sun surrounded by wisps of orange sunrays  Above, in the blue clouds are flying three purple birds with red feathers.

Sunrise and Birds

A painting of an abstracted purple figure leaning diagonally across the panel. On the left some of the wood panel shows through under pastel pink and blue. On the right there is a purple, iridescent mark, interrupted by florescent yellow palm leaves.

Another Scene

A portrait of a middle aged man with a full beard

Blue Jay, 2018

Laura Ruprecht