Lauren Davies Projects

This photo-sculpture series began some years back during a residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. The residency spurred my interest in getting out of the studio and moving into the world with a better camera. During this time in New Mexico, I photographed a number of odd and unexplainable situations that appeared almost like works in progress that had been suddenly abandoned by an unknown maker with no clear intentions.

I photographed a number of these peculiar scenarios and eventually printed the images in large scale on materials such as vinyl, fabric and fleecy blankets. My photo-sculpture combinations moved these documented scenarios into the realm of multi-dimensional visual mash-ups. The actual material is folded into a relationship with a photograph of the same material that had appeared in another situation. These photo-sculpture combinations result in something that is riffing on trompe-l’oeil tricksterism and garish advertising meshed with a slightly nonsensical collaboration with the anonymous efforts of an unknown participant.

Photograph of a pillow case printed on a pillow case at Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH, 2020

Woven photograph, collaged fabrics and dye.

76”x70”

Retail Landscape, 2017 (left)

Photograph printed on fabric with wood, paint and cinder blocks, 101" x 98"

Trying to Understand a Shadow, 2017 (center)

Photograph on aluminum, clay object, paint and thread on shelf, 15.5" x 24" x 6"

Youngstown 4, 2016 (right)

Deconstructed woven photograph, 56"x32"

Photograph printed on fabric with wood and cinder blocks.

101" x 98"

Photograph on aluminum, clay object, paint and thread on shelf, 15.5" x 24" x 6"

Photograph printed on fabric with OSB panel and polyvinyl tarp.

70" x 55"

Photograph printed on fabric with fabric border, wood, paint and cinder blocks.

74" x 55"

Photographs of stains printed on cotton

30" x 22", each

Photograph of a stain printed on cotton.

30" x 22"

Photograph of a stain printed on cotton. 

30" x 22"

Photograph of a stain printed on cotton. 

30" x 22"

Installation view from Looking After at ampersand arts, San Francisco, CA

Mixed media object, panels and pigment prints with ash.

Pigment print on panel with ash.

10" x 14"