Jayne Lawrence is a mixed media artist specializing in sculpture and drawing. She spent the early part of her career as a commercial artist in Denver, Colorado and relocated to San Antonio, Texas in 1983. She received a MFA in Sculpture from the University of Texas at San Antonio where she taught until her retirement in 2021.
The three key reoccurring elements in Lawrence’s work are the human figure, insects and architectural components. Lawrence says “I start from a place of knowing and end in a place of discovery, transformed.”
Lawrence has received awards from the International Sculpture Center in Hamilton, New Jersey, and completed a two-month residency at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York. LA-based, independent curator and critic Michael Duncan selected her to represent South Texas artists in a solo exhibition as part of the 2009 Texas Biennale, and again in 2013, as part of the fifth anniversary of selected past Biennial artists. In 2014, Lawrence ventured into Guatemalan jungle as part of her research for a solo exhibition at the Southwest School of Art in 2015. And in October of 2022, she participated in a three-month residency through the Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Residency Program/Künstlerhaus Bethanien International Studio Program.
Lawrence’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions including, among others:
International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, Laredo Center for the