Inspired directly from the natural world, Kramer’s work brings together art and nature.  Like barnacles on a boat hull or paper wasp nests they mimic and question the hybridity of made and natural materials.  They seem to defy accepted systems of classification contained in a cabinet of curiosity and explore the liminal.

Artist and designer Laura Kramer holds BFA and MFA degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and Ohio State University as well as an MA in Anthropology & Material Culture from Columbia University, where she also studied Archaeology. She has worked on excavations in the Dutch Antilles, cast bronze at Paolo Solari’s  Arcosanti, has been an artist-in-residence at Kitengala Glass in Kenya, and worked with glassblowers in Denmark.