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Paul Laffoley is a U.S. artist and architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following his formal education in the classics at Brown and architectural studies at Harvard, Laffoley came to New York in 1963 to work with the visionary artist and architect Frederick Kiesler, and was also recruited to view late-night TV for Andy Warhol. He also found work with the architectural firm Emery Roth & Sons, where he worked on the World Trade Center towers. During this period he commuted between New York and Cambridge, where he painted in the basement of his family’s home in Belmont, completing in 1965 the piece The Kali-Yuga: The End of the Universe at 424826 A.D..
As a painter, his work is usually classified as visionary art or outsider art. Most of Laffoley's pieces are painted on large canvases and combine words and imagery to depict a spiritual architecture of explanation, tackling concepts like dimensionality, time travel through hacking relativity, connecting conceptual threads shared by philosophers through the millennia, and theories about the cosmic origins of mankind.
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