b.1975, Towson, MD

Lauren is an artist and curator who currently resides in Portland, Maine.  She has exhibited her artwork nationally including recent shows at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Bakalar Gallery at MassArt, , the Edward Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, The Center For Maine Contemporary Art, the Portland Museum of Art,  The DUMBO Art Center in Brooklyn, NY, The John Michael Kohler Art Center; The Albany International Airport, and the Boston Center for the Arts.  Her work is currently on view in the exhibition “The Thinking Body” at The San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design and is the subject of  “Parterre” a major solo exhibition at The Bowdoin College Museum of Art through Jan 2009, with an accompanying catalog.
 
Outside the studio, Lauren is the Interim Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art.  Her current freelance curatorial project AFI will be featured at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece in Spring 2009.  Lauren is also a published writer who was formerly a contributing regional editor at Art New England Magazine and Associate Editor of Arts Guide Portland. She holds degrees from the Parsons School of Design (BFA 1997) and SUNY New Paltz (MFA 2000).