Laurie Frick creates large abstract collages where patterns, colors, and words merge to reference memory. The small fragments assembled on wood panels convey a staccato-like rhythm that suggests the experiences of a normal day while creating a continuity of color and movement. I see something in medieval Sienese painting that powerfully reaches into the mind and soothes you -- and am trying to reproduce it for today. Like a serving of comfort food for the brain, says Frick.

Frick earned a Masters in Fine Art at the New York Studio School and has had solo exhibitions at Robert Steele Gallery's Project Room in New York and at Gallery Shoal Creek. She was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2008 and a recent recipient of an Artist Residency at the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. In late 2009, she will complete a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha. In 2010, Ms Frick will be Artist in Residence at the Corporate of Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York.