Meet the Artist: Lauren Fensterstock from “Forces of Nature Renwick Invitational 2020”
Description:
Lauren Fensterstock, one of four artists featured in the exhibition “Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020,” creates detailed, large-scale installation artworks using labor-intensive modes of making drawn from the decorative arts, including paper quilling and mosaic. For "Forces of Nature,” the Smithsonian American Art Museum commissioned a site-specific work. It is the first in a new series for the artist inspired by sources like “The Book of Miracles,” a richly illustrated 16th-century German manuscript. This artwork transforms a gallery at the Renwick into an otherworldly landscape that captures the power and awe inherent in our celestial world. “Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020” was presented by the Smithsonian American Art Museum at its Renwick Gallery from October 16, 2020, to June 27, 2021. The exhibition features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts. Each of these invited artists looks to nature as a way to contemplate what it means to be human in a world increasingly chaotic and divorced from our physical landscape. Representing craft media from fiber to mosaic to glass and metals, these artists approach the long history of art’s engagement with the natural world through unconventional and highly personal perspectives.
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4 min 30 sec
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