Lauren Liebermann is an abstract artist based in the greater New York City area. Her vibrant, expressive works explore emotion, movement, and the dynamic space between intention and instinct. As a child, she would spend hours collaging, drawn to the quiet clarity that came from making without expectation—a balance of freedom and focus that still anchors her practice today. Her work invites emotion without instruction—making room for presence, and with it, the gift of being allowed to feel fully and freely.

Liebermann puts her whole body into her work. She paints standing over a canvas laid flat on the ground, using her hands, feet, and unconventional household items to layer, scrape, and rebuild her composition until its surface balances chaos and clarity. Her marks echo the energy of collage—fragments coming together to form something new. Her photographic process captures that same impulse in real time. She uses long-exposure techniques while moving her camera and body to create immersive, fluid works that look as though light were painted across the frame.

Liebermann’s work is held in public and private collections across the United States and internationally. Originally from Connecticut, she spent twenty years in New York City before settling in Montclair. She holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BA in Journalism from NYU.

Statement:

I am an abstract artist based in Montclair, NJ. My work is shaped by the tension between control and release, instinct and intention. For years, I thrived in high-pressure environments, academically and professionally, until motherhood tipped the scales. It was the final straw in a life packed too tightly. I finally saw how little space I had left for myself. 

Art became a lifeline: a reclamation of identity, agency, a way to care for myself with the same presence I offered my child. This quiet need has grown into a full-bodied practice — one that steadies me, stirs me, and allows me to move through the world on my own terms.

My work spans painting and long-exposure photography. In the studio, I paint standing over large canvases laid flat, using my whole body to build layered compositions that feel gestural and alive. My photographs are made in motion, often at night, using slow shutter speeds and camera movement to turn local landscapes into luminous, immersive abstractions. Whether painting or photographing, I am not trying to depict — I am trying to distill a feeling, to turn the intangible into something we can stand in front of and sense.

I believe room to reflect, to simply feel all our authentic feelings, does not arrive. It must be made. My work exists as both evidence and invitation: to take up the space we too often give away, to protect it, and to let it move us.

Instagram: @lauren_____liebermann

www.laurenliebermann.com

lauren.d.liebermann@gmail.com