Lauren Wy
Region: Midwest
My recent body of work is an exploration of a partially imagined
pseudo-narrative netherworld haunted by some unidentified
collective trauma. A series of lush scenes bathed in personal
secrets. The drawings are constructed with a limited, chemical
palette and the strange viscosity of oil-wax pastels on paper. Each
piece plays out the intention that my viewers become voyeurs of
a decorative necropolis where they are simultaneously indulged
and denied, invited and disinvited, ignored and addressed. I am
interested in identity and self-presentation as they relate to power
relationships, cult and tribal grouping, femme presentation,
ritual, and the solipsistic need to touch each other.
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