Laurel Lukaszewski

About the Artist

Laurel Lukaszewski is a Prince George’s County, Maryland-based artist who creates installations and sculptures primarily from clay. Her work is influenced by an appreciation of rhythms and patterns found in nature, and her study of Japanese art and culture over the past three decades.  Laurel has shown her ceramic sculpture throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to solo exhibitions in the Mid-Atlantic region, Huntsville, AL, St. Louis, MO, Tulsa, OK, and Bainbridge Island, WA, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and international art fairs in the District of Columbia, Miami, Palm Beach, New York, Chicago, and London. In 2015, her work wasexhibited at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as part of the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies Program. In 2021, she was the recipient of an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council.  Laurel serves on the IA&A Hillyer Advisory Committee, and is an emeritus director of the National Cherry Blossom Festival Board.

Artist's Statement

I am fascinated by repetitive forms found in nature, in patterns that seem to make sense out of chaos. Most of my installations reflect the notion of a moment captured in time, a liberal nod to a concept originally from the Japanese tea ceremony, “ichi-go ichi-e,” which translated means something close to “in one lifetime, one meeting” or “once in a lifetime.”