Lauren Harlowe, Painting
My work is a celebration of pattern and color. In nature, in our buildings, all through our cities, and a part of our textiles, patterns become emblazoned in our memories and become embedded in how we catalogue our experiences. My paintings are very much about how all sorts of patterns from my life and from the past have come together, how they interconnect, and how they change and meld in the mind’s eye. They become colorful abstractions based on an overlapping and skewing of very tangible objects. Images emerge through the layering of these patterns, and they grow to become larger stories that reveal the unexpected and speak to how memory can shift and transform the visual imagery we live with everyday.
Lauren Harlowe grew up in Dallas, Texas and now lives and works in Chicago. She attended Washington University in St. Louis, where she received a BFA in painting and art history in 2004. Last year, she completed an MA in painting from Eastern Illinois University. Teaching at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in the mornings, Lauren spends her afternoons in her studio at the Cornelia Arts Building near her home.
Contact Information
Lauren Harlowe, #101
Lauren.Hermann@gmail.com
www.LaurenHarlowe.com
