Laura Petrovich-Cheney

Laura Petrovich-Cheney is a visual artist whose work combines sculpture, woodworking, and textiles to reflect on how personal and collective lives are upended—and renewed—by disruption. While climate change often serves as a catalyst in her work, she is equally interested in the healing, resilience, and sense of regeneration that can emerge in its aftermath. Drawing on the lineage of women’s practices such as quilting, weaving, and needlework, she creates      sculptural forms that invite dialogue between the domestic and the environmental. Her work challenges conventional   boundaries between craft and fine art, while also examining how gendered associations with materials—wood as masculine, textiles as feminine—shape our understanding of artistic labor and value. Using salvaged wood and discarded remnants, Petrovich-Cheney transforms the cast-off into constructions that hold stories of memory, identity, and recovery.      (click here to  continue)                                                                                                                                                       

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