Lauren Luloff

When I create paintings, three dimensionality always creeps in: in the form of collage, cuts in the surface or they become freestanding works. Awkward hand-built structures press against and through the skin of my paintings. Wooden frames erupt and take over whole rooms, leaving fabric clinging in memory of painting. I use bedsheets, referencing home, intimacy, dreams and drama: their crumpling acting as an impasto swoosh, or creating chiaroscuro. Patterns from the sheets offer a harder edge line in contrast with my organic brush marks. The patterns have a nostalgic quality and act as signifiers of moments in one's history. In my paintings and installations I create immersive spaces, where it is an event to look, and also a site of events that have taken place. I am curious about combinations of works in relation to each other as they create a constellation of movement among them.