Laurie Trok is a mixed media artist living in

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

, Pennsylvania. She has worked with Brooklyn artist Isidro Blasco. She has shown at the

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, Space Gallery, and has shown her work with the

Westmoreland Museum of American Art The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is an art museum in Greensburg, Pennsylvania devoted to American art, with a particular concentration on the art of southwestern Pennsylvania. Art lover Mary Marchand Woods bequeathed her entire estate to e ...

. She has collaborated on community art projects in Pittsburgh. Trok's work was selected to highlight the lack of publicity of local women artists in the "Seen in Pittsburgh: Works on Paper by Women" by Graham Shearing. He hoped to "hand the curation of the show over to a rotating group of other curatorially minded individuals, preferably women." Her pieces have been described as resembling lace. Her collages have depth due to them hanging by fine wire behind each other, existing in three or more planes constructed of and cut paper. Other materials include window panes, vinyl, file folders, and other building supplies including scrap, Some of her work incorporates discarded windowpanes, with dimension achieved by applying vinyl to both sides of the glass. The pieces are constructed to utilize lighting to emphasize the shadows the cut outs casts.

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