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Lauren Eisen
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https://artistsregister.com/artists/CO5082
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United States
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| Lauren Lipinski Eisen
Encaustic Painting |
| My work explores the relationships between landscape, architecture, agriculture, horticulture and other aspects of industry that affect native plant and animal life. In my encaustic works, references to these subjects are integrated into the surface of the paintings as dimensional collage elements. Branches, reeds, seeds and other raw plant materials as well as processed food items and animal effigies are embedded into a wax medium to showcase their fragility in various stages of life, from embryos to post-harvest products processed for mass consumption. Copper, metal wire and mesh underlying and surrounding the paintings suggest a mechanical / industrial presence infiltrating and isolating the natural ecosystem. This series of mixed media works comments on our consumption of natural resources, utilizing produce and patterns of planting to reference agricultural and genetic modification of the landscape and alludes to a variety of interactions between man-made structures and the natural environment: inspiration and imitation, digestion and destruction,
cultivation and captivity.
Lauren Lipinski Eisen received an M.F.A. in Painting from Tulane University and a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art and Design. She has shown her work in galleries in London, New York, New Orleans and San Francisco and has participated in exhibits at The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, The State University of New York Art Museum in Plattsburgh and the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana. Lauren has given lectures and presentations about her work at universities and galleries across the country, as well The American Culture Association Conference in Toronto, Canada. She is the recipient of many honors and awards and her work is included in several private, corporate and public collections. Lauren leads the Painting program in the School of Art and Design at the University of Northern Colorado, teaching courses in Painting and Foundation Studies. She has also taught courses in Visual Arts at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio and Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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