Laura Lee Junge has been hailed as an intoxicating new talent on the American artistic front. Taking her inspiration from life experiences, Junge firmly believes that the most honest painting is what one knows. This is clearly a philosophy she transfers to both her canvas and sculpted works. Junge’s childhood years were split between Minnesota & Oklahoma, before attending university at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, initially concentration on figure painting. With time, her paintings became more eclectic, in a style that critics have described as "surrealistic expressionism." Junge, herself, remains a bit skeptical of any attempt to label her in a specific category. A self-declared fascination with movement typifies almost all of Junge’s artwork, which ranges dramatically from floral and inanimate renditions, to the worlds of musical expression or evocative, often jaded bar scenes. In these, a dark world seems to emerge from the soul of the canvas. No matter what the depiction, the fluidity of her work channels an energy that seems to defy the very nature of a one-dimensional canvas.