Lainey
Peltier
Lainey Peltier is an artist devoted to prolonged study, examining ecological entanglement, perception, and impermanence through iterative, process-based making.
Lainey Peltier is an artist devoted to prolonged study, examining ecological entanglement, perception, and impermanence through iterative, process-based making.
Guided by an ethics of slowness, care, and attentive looking, my work creates spaces where natural phenomena—earth, light, water—are encountered as both familiar and estranged. I approach image-making as a responsive, materially-sensitive practice, prioritizing processes that emphasize trace, residue, and chance. Repetition becomes an act of devotion: through focused, continued examination, my practice honors a reciprocal flow of perception, reflecting how we are simultaneously touching and touched by our environment.
Lainey Peltier is an artist based in Chicago, IL, whose practice centers on prolonged study. She employs process-based and iterative modes of creating to explore themes of interconnectedness, perception, and impermanence.
Working across painting, printmaking, and installation, Peltier develops bodies of work through extended engagement with specific sites and phenomena. Water, light, and atmosphere recur throughout the work as both subject and structural logic.
Peltier holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a dual BA and BFA in Art History and Studio Art, both with distinction, from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is held in collections at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Museum of Texas Tech University, Kent State University, St. Lawrence University, and others.
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