Laura Spong | |
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| Born | Laura Alice Miles February 20, 1926 |
| Died | August 13, 2018 (aged 92) |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Spouse | Ernest Maye Spong Jr. |
| Awards | Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award, South Carolina Arts Commission, 2017 |
Laura Spong (February 20, 1926 – August 13, 2018) was an American painter who in her later years became one of South Carolina's leading non-objective artists. She was one of the South Carolin’s leading non-objective artists mostly associated with Abstract Expressionism. A peer Mary Gilkerson described her work as “movement between calligraphic and pictographic, alluding to, without ever specifying, representational images”.