Artist to Watch: Laurie Nye Explores Place, Light, and Landscape in Luminous Paintings

Following a three-month fellowship in New Mexico, the Memphis-born creative is making her highly anticipated New York solo debut with Uffner & Liu gallery

BY LUCY REES

OCTOBER 2, 2026

The luminous, mesmerizing paintings of Laurie Nye are centered on notions of place, light, and the landscape. “I talk about all other themes through that subject matter,” says the Memphis-born, Los Angeles artist. The CalArts MFA graduate has quietly built a steady following for her dazzling, tapestry-like canvases that hover in a space between direct observation, myth, and subconscious memory. 

Now, after a transformative three-month fellowship in New Mexico, Nye is making her highly anticipated New York solo debut with Uffner & Liu gallery in the city’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Titled “The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You,” a nod to the Southern Gothic poet Frank Stanford, the exhibition marks a major career milestone, following two sold-out solo shows in 2024 and 2025 with Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles.

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