EXCERPT FROM buy some damn art INTERVIEW

How did you make the jump from working on paper to this series?

… I knew that I wanted to do something sculptural and tactile; I also moved into a new apartment recently, and during that process decided that I needed to use various things I had lying around in my studio or get rid of them by the end of the year … including all this dye and rope and leftover frames.  So I just started playing.  I feel like this direction refers to earlier work but also sophisticates it, texturizes it … they look good in any orientation!  There is no top or bottom.

I’ve heard you say that you are a collector. Can you elaborate?

I love the totemic power of objects.  The history of their initial functionality, and how that functionality changed over time is fascinating to think about. And of course previous owners … I’ve got an alligator head from Savannah, antlers and scorpion paperweights from my home state, rose water from a bodega in Philly, a little three-legged stone wolf that I got from an Upper West Side street fair and named Wallace. When I was in college in Texas, I accumulated a three-bedroom house full of pulp paperbacks, strange ornate mirrors, hundreds of postcards, black and white pictures of strangers and old sewing patterns, defunct typewriters … it was excessive. Since I’ve been in New York, I’ve been slowly but surely whittling down to only the very most special things. Curating has replaced collecting.

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N E W S !

One of my favorite online purveyors of fabulous original art is going to feature me and sell my work!  BUY SOME DAMN ART is the brainchild of Kate Singleton, Art Hound blogger and excellent art aficionado.  I am honored.  The show opens this Tuesday, May 29th, and will feature six new works that I’m thrilled to show as many people as possible.  Please tell your friends!  

Lauren