After spending decades in California, Lauren returned to her Rust Belt roots. This geographic change shifted her attention to decaying American manufacturing and the impact of global and internet economies on communities around Cleveland, Youngstown, Pittsburgh and Detroit. Combining photography with digitally woven textiles, “Industry Unraveled” connects historical narratives to a current sense of economic unraveling witnessed in both the landscape and industrial architecture scattered throughout the Rust Belt. Her current project in development visually explores the legacy of incarceration in a historic prison in Ohio.
Lauren received a Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Award in addition to multiple Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. Her work has been recently presented at Transformer Station, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, the Fuller Craft Museum, Jack Fischer Gallery and the Rust Belt Biennial. She was an artist-in-resident at the Wurlitzer Foundation in 2023 and at the Joan Mitchell Center in 2022. Lauren has also had residencies at MASSMoCA, the California Academy of Sciences, Santa Fe Art Institute, Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The Lab. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Photograph Magazine, Art Papers, and Temporary Art Review amongst others. She received a MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Lauren currently lives in Cleveland.