Laub
Laub lives and works as an artist in Los Angeles, California. His most recent solo show, ‘Let Me Touch You’ (2023) at Sebastian Gladstone Gallery in Hollywood CA was inspired by Laub’s endeavors to become a massage therapist. The show included a series of wheel thrown pots glazed in primary colors and carved with images of the systems of the body, large quilts, titled Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Body, including smaller hand embroidered quilts depicting images of reflexology for the hand and foot, and a series of hot sculpted mirrored glass sculptures that hang on the wall, which Laub refers to as ‘Spirit.’ He has shown at Visitor Welcome Center in Los Angeles, CA and Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles, CA.
He is passionate about making, and has spent his life developing skills in glass blowing, ceramics, textiles, various stringed instruments and now massage. Laub is also a teacher, believing that sharing the knowledge he has gained throughout the years of materiality and touch are vital to the continuum of humanity into the future and beyond.
Laub, along with friend and collaborator R. Dawn Silver, co-founded Community Quilting Bee in 2018.
Let’s Play (2023)
A new donut shop opened in my neighborhood called Sidecar Donuts. Their donuts are delicious and fresh, flavors such as Passionfruit Pavlova, Malasada, and Salted Malted Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. I’ve been enjoying getting a few to share with friends, and every time the box opens, we look inside at all the mesmerizing donuts and everyone giggles with glee. For my ‘square’ I made a half a dozen donuts out of tiny scraps of fabric that I once cut up a long time ago between projects. The scraps look like sprinkles to me. The donuts are hanging throughout the quilt like little ornaments of joy.
Neon Ruins (2022)
I started with a yard each of five different neon colored pieces of fabric. I sewed them together, each time cutting them up into more and more pieces, and resewing the cut pieces, again and again, until I got to a point where I couldn’t cut anymore without the sew lines coming apart. I was thinking about disintegrating and rebuilding patterns happening simultaneously, like how certain plants will die and grow upon the dead parts.