making stuff my 6 year old self would love
Lauren is an emerging mixed media and installation artist whose work focuses on exploring identity and the elements that contribute to the way we see ourselves and how that self is reflected in our conscious and subconscious interactions with other individuals, physical spaces, and social structures. Her process reimagines familiar or personal spaces and objects through larger than life scale abstraction, referential nostalgic imagery and textured 5 sense engaging mixed media. The outcomes are environments and performances that aim to allow viewers to make peace with past experiences, imagine a dreamy utopian future, or just enjoy feeling like a six year old again.
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tｈｅ ｏｕｔｅｒ ｒｅａｌｍ
september 2019
tｈｅ ｏｕｔｅｒ ｒｅａｌｍ is an endeavor to learn by doing. Starting in November of 2018 I began renovating a garage for a self funded immersive art installation exploring childhood imagination. This is my first public art installation but I have been designing secret spaces from my blanket fort days on. I have always reveled in my own private hideouts and now I am inviting the world in. I've found that in tｈｅ ｏｕｔｅｒ ｒｅａｌｍ, a world of nightmares and daydreams, I can see clearly my own light and maybe even darkness.
Dreamscapes, Northwest Cultural Center: Seattle
december artwalk 2019
This group show embodies the deepest places of the imagination. Prompted by this concept I chose to explore a series based on childhood doodles. This collection consisted of a mini installation of 3D amoeba shapes, 10 flat work pieces, and 9 mobiles. The work is characterized by movement, coloring outside the lines, and the wreck-less abandon of my youth.
Sessions In Place: Heddwen Music: MAKING MY HOME IN THE DESERT
A trio of mystic fluid sculptural forms that evoke the resilience of the desert landscape. Comprised of sculpting wire mesh, chicken wire, mod rock and papier-mâché. These rock creatures surrounded Heddwen during their livestream concert and worked in unison to create a hauntingly beautiful evening at the Sorento Hotel.
august 2020
Baby's First Bath, Shunpike Arts: Storefronts 2020
feb-april 2020
I kinda said to myself what is the most unexpected thing a person could see as they pass by on the street and the piece was born. This piece was meant to be a window into the secret life of the monster that lives under your bed. The work is part of the continuing examination of the ‘outer realms’ of the mind and asks: is fear our friend, how do we respond to the serendipitous, how do we know the difference between what’s real and imagined? The art invites the passerby to remain curious, and peek around life’s corners for unexpected magic.
𝔪𝔞𝔡𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢'𝔰 𝔤𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔫 𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔬𝔭𝔢́, Deep Affection: Hiawatha Art Club, Anti-Valentines Day Show 2020
Valentine's Day 2020
Self love is often perceived as a privilege when it should be a right. This tender tent was an invitation to luxuriate in a moment of “public solitude.” This witchy, Midsomar-ian, blanket fort was a divergence from my usual aesthetic meant to use campy over top imagery to remind guest that self love isn’t only for the few but an open invitation for the many. A cluster of plush pillows invites you to soak in. A letter box to write notes to your younger self. A treasure box, take a treasure that speaks to you. A collaborative collage that’s a community ode to self love. This was an interactive piece and it’s guests really dictated the experience. A moment of pause in the midst of all you’re going through, that's what I crave on Valentine’s Day.
FOR DAD, The Factory: Seattle
october 2018
Created by a 3 person film collective known as the Sexy Bitch Collective for a multidisciplinary arts night at The Factory, this performance art film explored the grief of walking through the illness of a loved one. FOR DAD used camp and humor to ask the question is there a right way to grieve. How do we marginalize grief and the mourner. Who gets to grieve, when, and in what ways? And what happens when the mundane activities of caring for another's health send you down the rabbit hole?
performance art
I began performing at a young age. I have always been compelled by characters that see the world in a different way or are driven by their emotions. My performance experience includes theater, film, performance art, production, modeling and commercial work. My performance background informs every piece I create. Even my visual art aims to create a whole person sensory experience and is driven by narrative which directly mirrors my performance work.
efemmera
Large scale sculptural installation comprised of reclaimed materials, mementos and memories. A love letter to all the trash that is really treasure, and the preciousness something because it was ever here, not because it was here forever. To give dignity to the things we hold onto, the things we let go of, and all the many things that get stuck somewhere in between
June 2024
Into Pieces/
Into Place
An immersive art experience featuring life sized textile sculptures and deconstructed large format paintings. The work explores the process of rebuilding identity after loss, the beautifully destructive nature of the art making process, and the magic that comes from finding the courage to create. Come be surrounded by an intimate forest of abstract forms that burst with color and the fullness of love, loss and life.
april 2023
tｈｅ ｏｕｔｅｒ
ｒｅａｌｍ
september 2019
tｈｅ ｏｕｔｅｒ ｒｅａｌｍ is an endeavor to learn by doing. Starting in November of 2018 I began renovating a garage for a self funded immersive art installation exploring childhood imagination. This is my first public art installation but I have been designing secret spaces from my blanket fort days on. I have always reveled in my own private hideouts and now I am inviting the world in. I've found that in tｈｅ ｏｕｔｅｒ ｒｅａｌｍ, a world of nightmares and daydreams, I can see clearly my own light and maybe even darkness.
Sessions In Place: Heddwen Music: MAKING MY HOME IN THE DESERT
A trio of mystic fluid sculptural forms that evoke the resilience of the desert landscape. Comprised of sculpting wire mesh, chicken wire, mod rock and papier-mâché. These rock creatures surrounded Heddwen during their livestream concert and worked in unison to create a hauntingly beautiful evening at the Sorento Hotel.
august 2020
Dreamscapes, Northwest Cultural Center: Seattle
december artwalk 2019
This group show embodies the deepest places of the imagination. Prompted by this concept I chose to explore a series based on childhood doodles. This collection consisted of a mini installation of 3D amoeba shapes, 10 flat work pieces, and 9 mobiles. The work is characterized by movement, coloring outside the lines, and the wreck-less abandon of my youth.
Baby's First Bath, Shunpike Arts: Storefronts 2020
feb-april 2020
I kinda said to myself what is the most unexpected thing a person could see as they pass by on the street and the piece was born. This piece was meant to be a window into the secret life of the monster that lives under your bed. The work is part of the continuing examination of the ‘outer realms’ of the mind and asks: is fear our friend, how do we respond to the serendipitous, how do we know the difference between what’s real and imagined? The art invites the passerby to remain curious, and peek around life’s corners for unexpected magic.
𝔪𝔞𝔡𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢'𝔰 𝔤𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔫 𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔬𝔭𝔢́, Deep Affection: Hiawatha Art Club, Anti-Valentines Day Show 2020
Valentine's Day 2020
Self love is often perceived as a privilege when it should be a right. This tender tent was an invitation to luxuriate in a moment of “public solitude.” This witchy, Midsomar-ian, blanket fort was a divergence from my usual aesthetic meant to use campy over top imagery to remind guest that self love isn’t only for the few but an open invitation for the many. A cluster of plush pillows invites you to soak in. A letter box to write notes to your younger self. A treasure box, take a treasure that speaks to you. A collaborative collage that’s a community ode to self love. This was an interactive piece and it’s guests really dictated the experience. A moment of pause in the midst of all you’re going through, that's what I crave on Valentine’s Day.
FOR DAD, The Factory: Seattle
october 2018
Created by a 3 person film collective known as the Sexy Bitch Collective for a multidisciplinary arts night at The Factory, this performance art film explored the quest pressure of perfection verses the reality of living with trauma. FOR DAD used camp and humor to ask the question is there a right way to grieve. And faces down the rabit hole of grief head on.