Lauren Braun is an artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. She works in collage, drawing and painting. In 2021, she became a certified mindfulness facilitator with the intention of helping artists learn how to incorporate mindfulness/meditation techniques into their art practices.
She was recently selected to participate in the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s ‘Tough Art @ Home’ digital residency program, and for a mentorship collaboration between the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Creative Citizens Studios. She was a 2018 Emerging Artist at the Three Rivers Arts Festival and has participated in residencies at Nemacolin, the Pittsburgh Glass Center and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work was featured in Creative Nonfiction Magazine. She holds a Masters degree in Fine Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a BFA (Art Photography) with honors from Syracuse University.
Since moving to Pittsburgh in 2007, she has developed her studio practice while working for a variety of non-profit organizations including Dreams of Hope, JFilm and Jewish Residential Services. She also had a brief stint in the corporate world as the program coordinator for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards program.
Lauren’s work is included in the permanent public collection of the PA Convention Center in Philadelphia, and the corporate collection of PNC Bank.
She creates work in her Squirrel Hill studio.
Statement
I consider myself a collage artist with interests in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco Movements, the women of Surrealism, constructed photography, organic shapes from nature, and painterly color. The first part of my artistic practice involves researching images as inspiration for my artwork, then drawing or painting my own imagery for use as collage material. Experimenting with a range of different materials led me to work with acrylic skin seashells, pebble collages made with acrylic inks on yupo paper paired with painted paper and wire mobiles, and a whimsical series of paper cutouts that depict seashells, pebbles, flowing water, Art Deco shapes, and insects. I explore themes of transformation, adaption, and meditation in the ways that I construct my artwork and my practice involves creative play, variation, repetition, and improvisation.
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