Lauren Adams
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Artwork
Bread & Bullets, 2005 (installation view)
Bread & Bullets, 2005 (detail view, Corn to Condos)
Untitled Books Series, 2007
Untitles Plates Series, 2007 - 2009
Forgotten War, 2009 (fresco)
Lauren
Adams
Artist's Statement
As an artist who grew up in a rural area of the American south, I am inclined in my work to explore issues of labor, class, the aesthetics of rural experience, and American domesticity. Visualizing typical domestic situations allows me to discuss the ways in which we insist on surrounding ourselves with objects of both comfort and terror.
I aim to slow down a capitalist sense of time by making art ‘products’ with a shelf life: wall drawings (which are painted over after the exhibition), expendable consumer items (paper plates, butcher paper, cheap fabric), and performative exhibitions of mundane tasks (a haircut, a nap). I hope to elevate and prolong the ephemeral (albeit briefly) so that we may recognize the absurd impulses in our own behavior.
Bio/Resume
EDUCATION
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Carnegie Mellon University, MFA
GRANTS
Joan Mitchell Foundation
RESIDENCIES
Cité Internationale des Arts Residency, Paris
Jentel Artist Residency Program, Wyoming
SOLO
Bitter Harvest, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, CA
GROUP
Countertransferences: Approaches in Social Art Practice, UNC-Wilmington
Joan Mitchell Recipients, CUE Foundation, NY
Meet the Made: Robot 250, Mattress Factory, PA
Pro/Con: Political Craft, Rebus Works, NC
Findings, Miller Gallery, PA
Hair Piece, Turkish Bath, Belgrade, Serbia
Fly-Over State Perspectives, University of Maryland College Park
Rat Fink's Revenge, Peterson Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Seeing Double, The Warhol Museum
Crosscurrents, NC Museum of Art
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Needle Work, Allison Smith at the Kemper Art Museum
YESRAD, Matt Barton at Cosign Projects, St. Louis, MO
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