About

Born in Latvia, raised and educated in Moscow and presently working as a visual artist DC area, Irina Lawton is attracted to the examination of different subject matters. These vary from the psychological intensity of portraiture to the complex political and social consequences of regime change in Post-Communist Russia to the sensibility and techniques of pictorial aesthetics at the turn of the 20th century. These concepts are linked together through the use of a common style. Multiple layers of meaning convey a complex narrative in one frame.

Irina holds MFA in photography from the Maine Media College, Maine

While living in Miami in 2004-2021 Irina was an artist in residence at the Bakehouse Art Complex. Her work participated in Miami Art Fair, Toronto art Fair, Affordable art Fair, Agua Art Fair, The Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Baker Museum of Art, Naples, FL, Bienes Rare Book Collectioons. Her work was featured in The Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel newspapers among others. Irina’s works included in the Arthur Jaffe Rare Book Collection, NOVA University Permanent Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Printmaking Department Collection and several important private collections.

In 2022 Irina relocated to the Washington DC area and became a member of the Multiple Exposure Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center.