She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and studied printmaking in San Francisco with Crown Point Press. She has exhibited widely in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York, most notably in three solo exhibitions at Steven Harris Architects in New York City. Lawrence is honored as an American Abstract Painter and has work in several public collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art in Massachusetts, the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University and the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design. She draws on performing arts as well as visual arts traditions in her painting practice. She is also a musician and proponent of listening to live concert music. She lives and works in Providence.