Launa Bacon was born in Normal, Illinois in 1974, but spent much of her formative years in her studio in a barn in Nebraska.  She received her BA from Skidmore College in 1997, majoring in Art History and minoring in Studio Art and Asian Studies.  As the recipient of the Sachs Award after graduation, she continued her studies of Hindu art motifs of Indonesia.  Bacon's studies of international art and cultures inform her work:  she now reexamines the presupposed construct of her own culture's visual landscape.  She has shown traditionally and non-traditionally in San Francisco and Los Angeles, most recently at Metro Gallery, sponsored by the Light Bringer Project in Pasadena.

My work seeks to find a certain vision of the human condition...the grime between reality/nonreality, conscious/unconscious.  My images take shape when I consider the subtle tension between beauty and revulsion found in the human condition.  By combining various painting and sculptural materials such as latex, shellac and epoxy on canvas; the beauty of the surfaces balance the disturbing content.  I wish to bring back the coexistence of aesthetic value (beauty) and meaning (content).  What is at stake for me is how to address the personal in such a way that explores the pleasures, ironies and the the natures of existence that have been culturally naturalized.