Joseph Labate & Laura LaFave
Under One Roof at Tusen Takk #1926, 2022
Pigment ink, graphite on cotton rag paper, 8.5" x 11"
Under One Roof is a collaboration of photographs by Joseph Labate and drawings by Laura LaFave. Married and living together, in addition to making our own individual works, we work together on collaborative pieces. As we make our own individual works, we are continuously sharing and critiquing them with each other. This leads us to the ideas for collaboration.
Our collaborative work begins with Joseph’s photographs intended for collaborative pieces. We select some of these photographs and Joseph prints them, each on a separate section sheet of cotton rag paper. Laura then applies gesso to the blank section of the paper and draws with graphite.
ARTIST BIOS
Joseph Labate is an Emeritus Professor of Art in the School of Art at the University of Arizona. He was the Chair of Photography from 1996 until 2014. Labate has a B.S. in engineering from Clarkson University, a B.F.A. in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and an M.F.A. in photography from the University of Arizona. He makes his work in his studio in the Steinfeld Warehouse in Tucson. Labate is a recipient of a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, an Artist’s Grant from the Contemporary Forum of the Phoenix Art Museum and an Artist’s Grant from Polaroid of Tokyo, Japan. He has exhibited and taught photography nationally and internationally. His work is in many private and public collections including the Art Institute of Colorado, the Center for Creative Photography, the City of Phoenix, The Museum of Texas Tech University, the Snell-Wilmer Collection, the Streitch Lang Collection, the Tucson Museum of Art, the University of Arizona, the Weeks Gallery and Roussenski Lom National Park in Bulgaria.
Laura LaFave was born in Washington, D.C. She has a B.A. in psychology from the College of William and Mary, a B.F.A. in painting and drawing from Arizona State University and an M.F.A. in painting and drawing from the University of Arizona. Laura has exhibited regionally and nationally. Her work ranges from small, intimate drawings to large wall-sized mixed media paintings. Laura has worked in education teaching to a wide range of students, young children to university art majors. She worked in administration as a former dean. Before dean, Laura was counselor and principal. Laura also was on the Arizona Commission on the Arts for eight years. Laura’s work is in the collection of the University of Arizona and Lewis and Roca law firm as well as many private collections.
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