Laurie Simko: Past and Present
On view March 1 – April 12, 2025
Artists Reception, open to the public, Sunday, March 9, 2025. 3:00-5:00pm
Laurie Simko is an oil painter and collage artist who explores many subjects: primarily the natural world but also still life and portraiture. Her award-winning work is exhibited in galleries and organizations throughout New England and NYC. She is the recipient of 2 Mass Cultural Council Grants for 2 solo exhibitions of a series of portraits of nurses during the 2020 pandemic.
Simko grew up in the Greater Boston area in Massachusetts. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She worked as an Art Director and Graphic Designer in several advertising and high-tech firms in the Boston area and was the Design Director at Apollo/Hewlett-Packard for thirteen years. From there she started her own web and print graphic design company, called Simko Eye Design.
Simko currently paints full-time and co-manages/teaches art classes with Lowell Learns, an art outreach program for children and adults. Simko lives with her husband and has 2 children and 4 grandchildren.
