Laura Frazure is an artist and educator with a primary focus on the study and practice of sculptural figuration and human anatomy. She is a modeler and inventor of human morphologies with the inspiration or generative material for her work coming from a wide range of sources. These include literature, popular culture, corporate and social media, art history and the study of bodily rhetoric. The work’s content is most typically directed toward the uses, commodification and modes of presentation of women as informed by cultural assumptions and imperatives.
Frazure received her BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at the University of the Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, The New York Academy of Art, the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing and the Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, Tianjin, China. Frazure is a nationally and internationally exhibiting artist with works shown in Asia, Europe and throughout the US. She has received two Pew Fellowship Disciplinary Awards, three Faculty Research Grants from the University of The Arts and the Robert Engman Award from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work is in notable collections, including Nader Tavakoli, New York, and Witold Rybczynski, Philadelphia. She is included in Reinhard Fuchs’, Women in Art, Volume 1, 520 Masterpieces of Visual Art, The Great Female Artists: From The Middle Ages to the Modern Era. In 2024 Laura received the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of the Arts, where she was coordinator of sculpture.
