ShockBoxx Gallery features new paintings by Laura Schuler
Laura Schuler. PhotoA bigger burst of energy Laura Schuler’s “Creative Dissonance” opens Saturday at ShockBoxx in Hermosa Beach It wasn’t the answer I was expecting. “I studied systems engineering,” Laura Schuler replies when asked what she majored in. Schuler, along with Michael Collins, owns ShockBoxx Gallery on Cypress Avenue in the quasi-bohemian district of Hermosa Beach, a couple of doors up from Resin, the art collective run by Rafael McMaster. Schuler has a solo show of her recent paintings opening on Saturday, and that’s why we’re sitting outside, in front of ShockBoxx, on an overcast but warm afternoon. Schuler grew up in Arlington County, outside of Washington, D.C. “My mom always wanted me to take art classes. But when I got to college I didn’t want to study art: I wanted to study physics. My dad was like, ‘What are you going to do with a physics degree? You need to be an engineer.’” I’ll tell you what you do with a physics degree, her interviewer exclaims. You discover secrets of the universe! “That’s what I wanted to do, yeah,” Schuler says with a laugh. “My high school had a planetarium and I went there every Friday morning before school started to hear what the…
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