Legacy poses the question: What, if anything, do artists pass down from one generation to the next through the teaching process? Certainly, every artist exists within specific moments in time, and yet art exists on a creative continuum: Rules are crafted and broken. Mentors transmit ideas, and perhaps they are conduits of their teachers before them. And, when we teach, we also gain insights from our students. Through teaching, does an artist's work become bi-directional and can we recognize creative DNA? Here, Lauro-Lazin brings together her own work with work by some of her teachers—including Alex Minewski, Judy Pfaff, and Allan Hacklin—and students, including Crystal Benitez, Sherie Weldon, Hank Bhatia, and Jake Wright.

About the artist: Linda Lauro-Lazin is a visual artist, an educator, and a technologist, developing a vernacular of digital mark-making and abstraction that conflates analog and digital painting. She is the Assistant Chair of the Department of Digital Arts in the School of Art at Pratt Institute. Lauro-Lazin is a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of the Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency and Fondation Karolyi Residency. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at BAU Gallery, the Knockdown Center, and the Dorsky Museum. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute and an MA from New York Institute of Technology.