About the Artist

“My work redefines portraiture by expanding the boundaries of the print medium. Rather than a traditional approach to portrait focused on a single individual, the work alludes to the many forces that shape each person. Printmaking’s indirectness allows me to break down ideas and use matrices to reconstitute them—using a set of repeated parts to create a unique whole. My matrices include Chinese and Japanese woodblock prints, engravings, paper molds, life casts, 3D scans, and CNC routed molds. I consider the resulting amalgam of processes to be prints. My newest body of work rethinks the role of the printing substrate—creating my own paper from invasive plants to cast woodblocks. These materials also add layers of meaning to the portrait subjects”

Laura Post earned an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Printmaking and a B.A. from Swarthmore College in Studio Art and Asian Studies. She is currently Assistant Professor of Printmaking at University of Dallas and lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Post uses her training in Chinese language and East Asian studies to incorporate traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Western printmaking and papermaking techniques in her work. Through grant projects and workshops, she engages the community to remove and process invasive plants, then creates large-scale pulp paintings and pulp-cast prints. This work started in Utah in 2016, continued in Indiana, and now continues in Texas through through her LRP Studio, LLC founded in 2020. She has collaborations with the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, the City of Fort Worth Water Department, the Fort Worth Public Library, the Arlington Public Library, and the Dallas Area Fiber Artists.

Post has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at Appalachian Center for Craft (2025), Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, Texas (2022), solo exhibitions at the Arts Fort Worth (2021), Arts Place Indiana (2020), Swarthmore College’s List Gallery (2019), and CR Ettinger Studio (2019). Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale, Shanghai, China; Umbra: New Prints for a Dark Age selected by Alison Saar at International Print Center New York; twice selected for PaperWest: National Works on Paper Juried Exhibition at the University of Utah to name a few.