Laurie Hall
University of Iowa, Iowa City

Laurie earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology before focusing on photography as her primary medium for exploring issues of patriarchal authority, gender construction, and preconscious processes.  She isolates cultural conditions in her work but retains an ambiguity in their depiction which allows for personal interpretation and application.  The resulting images are intended to provoke a response and thus act as "projective incitements."  These photographs appears in collections in five states, having been shown in group exhibitions throughout the United States.  After living and working in the Middle East, Laurie presently resides on one hundred acres in the interior lowlands of Iowa which she is in the process of reforesting.  She is also the recipient of the Briggs Scholarship in Studio art at the University of Iowa.