The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is thrilled to introduce the 12 artists selected for the 2024 Arts/Industry residency program. The distinguished lineup includes Sharif Bey, Shae Bishop, Justin Favela, Cathy Hsiao, Sahar Khoury, Mary Anne Kluth, Lauren Mabry, Harold Mendez, Martha Poggioli, Lee Emma Running, Edra Soto, and Ger Xiong/Ntxawg Xyooj.
Each artist will spend three months crafting new pieces in the Kohler Co. factory in Kohler, WI, either in the pottery or foundry studios.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024, Arts/Industry will be honored throughout the year at JMKAC with exhibitions showcasing its history, current residents, alumni highlights, and the vital contributions of industry professionals.
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Reminiscing The Now, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas-Arlington
September 6- October 8, 2022
“The exhibit, titled “Reminiscing the Now: Directions in Contemporary Clay,” is meant to challenge the audience’s perceptions of clay and what it can be, said Payusova, assistant chair of the art department and art history and area coordinator for painting.” more
Institute of Contemporary Art at Main College of Art & Design: "A Fresh Greeting is Heard "
The Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D
Portland, Maine
On View from July 15 - September 18, 2022
This exhibition highlights four artists who navigate realms between abstraction and figuration to tease out the disquiet and enchantment found in wild spaces, the magic of transformation, the tendency to see meaningful imagery in ambiguous forms, and the agency of natural places as vibrant actors in our collective imagination. Works in painting, ceramics and video by Leon Benn, Lauren Mabry, Allison Schulnik, and Hannah Secord Wade on view.
“Lauren Mabry’s works capture transformative material forces beyond our control. Her ceramic objects appear fixed in medias res, clarifying materials and objects in transition. The least representational of the works on exhibit in the ICA, Mabry’s works provide pathways for us to imagine the wildness of evolutions outside our ken"… -Julie Poitras Santos
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Smithsonian American Art Museum. This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
The Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC exhibits recent acquisitions to the collection, including Glazescape (Green Shade)
May 13, 2022- April 2, 2023
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World showcases American craft like never before. The exhibition highlights the role that artists play?in our world to?spark essential conversations, stories of resilience, and methods of activism—showing us a more relational and empathetic world.
October 23, 2021: The Degree of Movement, Solo Exhibition Philadelphia, PA
The Degree of Movement is Lauren Mabry’s first solo exhibition at Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.
Pentimenti Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the sculptural ceramic work of Lauren Mabry. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Lauren Mabry’s newest work pushes the farthest boundaries of the physicality of form and material. Firing her kiln to the melting point of the lush, vibrant glazes she uses, Mabry transforms the material’s state of matter from solid to liquid to solid again. The work is both experimental and precisely calculated; the desired effect is only achieved within a narrow range of temperature possibilities. The Degree of Movement refers to the temperature at which the glaze morphs into a molten flow of gesture.
Mabry's dimensional drawings escape the sculptural form and drip or melt across openings in the architecture in the work. The contrast between the geometric structure of the ceramic and the amorphous fluidity of the glaze pillars and drips is complicated by the mark-making on the surface of the ceramic. These drawn abstractions weave a language of symbolic connection between the different elements of the work.
The Degree of Movement is the product of both a vigorous research-based artistic practice, as well as formal experimentation and innovation. Despite the process-oriented nature of the work, the sculptures maintain strong senses of spontaneity and serendipity. Play and joy are integral elements of the work.
145 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19106
October 23, 2021- January, 2022
Boston Globe
Melting Point as seen in The Boston Globe.
“What’s happening in the arts world” by Cate McQuaid
Go To The Article , August 5, 2021
Open through Sept 25, 2021: Melting Point @ Heller Gallery NYC & Ferrin Contemporary
June 24 - Sept 25, 2021
The Melting Point is the degree when solid becomes soft, eventually becoming liquid and a boiling point is reached. Glaze melts, clay and glass soften, surface and form become pliable. This exhibition surveys a diverse group of artists whose use of the melting point is central to their practice.
Used metaphorically, as the planet warms we are finding ourselves closer to the melting point both physically and socially. In 2020, forces combined under pressure of the COVID virus, politics exploded and nature responded with melting ice, raging fires and extreme weather. Likewise, artists use the melting point as a metaphor in their work to express their political beliefs and sound the alarm using the fragile materials of glass and ceramic.
The exhibition is a collaboration between Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams, MA on the MASS MoCA campus and Heller Gallery, located in the Chelsea Art District of New York City. The co-curators and gallery directors are renowned specialists in their fields, Leslie Ferrin (ceramics) and Katya Heller (glass).
Denver Art Review
Lauren Mabry: Winding Way
Review by Marsha Mack
Denver Art Review: Inquiry and Analysis
“Formulated with scientific fervor and refined with measured precision, the glaze results seen in the pieces in Winding Way are truly uncommon. The works highlight playful material revelations, and the thickness and behavior of these glazes are unprecedented.”
Winding Way: Solo Exhibition at Plinth Gallery Denver, CO
Solo Exhibition: Winding Way opens at Plinth Gallery in Denver, Colorado. April 2, 2021- May 31, 2021
Plinth Gallery curator Jonathan Kaplan reflects that "I am extremely honored to exhibit Lauren Mabry's ceramic work. She is steering ceramics into new directions, absent of how ceramics has been historically and culturally viewed."
“Winding Way” opens on First Friday, April 2 from 6pm to 9pm and remains at the gallery through May 29. Plinth Gallery is located at 3520 Brighton Blvd in Denver’s River North Art District (RiNo). For further information, please contact the gallery at 303 295-0717 or gallery@plinthgallery.com
No Dead Artists @ Jonathan Ferrara Gallery: International Juried Exhibition
Of the approximate 3,000 artworks submitted to this jury by over 600 artists worldwide, only fifteen artists were selected to have their work exhibited at JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY.
http://www.jonathanferraragallery.com/exhibitions/24th-annual-no-dead-artists
Press Release
22 August 2020 (New Orleans, LA)JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY proudly presents the 24th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. For the 2020 installment of the exhibition, the gallery will host works by fifteen artists from and/or working across the United States, as well as, Argentina, the UK, Cuba, Austria, and Costa Rica. The exhibition will be on view from 22 August to 30 September 2020 with a scheduled self-guided art walk on 5 September 2020 from 10 am - 5 pm in conjunction with the Arts District New Orleans’ (ADNO) First Saturday Art Stroll.
The NO DEAD ARTISTS exhibition was founded by Jonathan Ferrara in 1995 to give a voice to emerging artists. The exhibition's name is derived from the old adage that artists never achieve success until they are dead. NO DEAD ARTISTS turns that notion on its head and often gives emerging artists their first break in the art world. In the 90's, the exhibition was open to New Orleans-based artists and subsequently grew to include artists of Louisiana, then becoming a national juried exhibition in 2010. And in 2014, the exhibition went international. Now in its 24th iteration, the exhibition has been a springboard for numerous artists; leading to national press coverage, recognition, gallery representation and acquisitions by museums and other prominent collections.
Pentimenti Gallery Representing Lauren Mabry
Lauren Mabry is now represented by Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Pentimenti Gallery features content-driven contemporary art that challenges traditional aesthetics and materials by a line of internationally established artists alongside up-and-coming talent. Our represented artists have consistently participated in international museum exhibitions and biennials, and are included in leading institutional collections, as well as, private collections worldwide.
Throughout two decades, Pentimenti Gallery has gained national recognition by maintaining a commitment to process based work and elaborate craftsmanship. Over time, the exhibition program has broadened to encompass abstract and figurative aesthetics to innovative works created from unconventional materials (packaging tape, marine vinyl, embroidered x-rays, etc.).
Regarded as one of the top gallery destinations in Philadelphia, our exhibitions garner critical acclaim from numerous publications including Art in America, the Art Economist, the Huffington Post, the Brooklyn Rail, The New York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Culture Trip, USA Today, TimeOut New York, and more.
Each year, Pentimenti Gallery is invited to participate in major international art fairs and stages off-site projects as a platform for exploring new conversations within a wider context of galleries, artists and institutions.
FUSED: Solo Exhibition at Ferrin Contemporary
FUSED: Solo Exhibition at Ferrin Contemporary, May 4-June 30, 2019
Ferrin Contemporary is pleased to announce LAUREN MABRY: Fused, the first solo at the gallery by Philadelphia- based artist Lauren Mabry.
Mabry will introduce a new series of ‘dimensional paintings’ that use color, form and an exuberant sense of play to explore transformative nature of clay. Drips, spills and dollops of brightly colored glaze move across her forms, with a precise sense of chaos. The titled, Fused, eludes to the melted surface created within the kiln. This magical moment is something that Mabry is able to hold to within her glaze work, as if she’s able to slow down time itself.
https://ferrincontemporary.com/portfolio/lauren-mabry-fused/
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Museum Acquisition
Spilling Pipe (2015) acquired by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.
On view from June 2-August 12, 2018 as part of Unexpected Encounters
Venus Fly at Flinn Gallery
Venus Fly, Flinn Gallery
Greenwich, CT
Dec 14, 2017- January 24, 2018
3 person show with Alyse Rosner and Becca Lowry
Groundbreaking: Innovations In Clay
Groundbreaking: Innovations in Clay, Kimball Art Center
Park City, UT
Feb 18- April 16, 2017
Including work also from Francesca DiMattio, Lauren Gallaspy, Molly Hatch, Giselle Hicks, Andy Nasisse, Alwyn O'Brien, Adam Shiverdecker, Akio Takamori, Kurt Weiser, Christina West, and Christa Assad.
Polsinelli Collection
Polsinelli Collection Commission: Stacked Compositions
Dallas, TX
January 5, 2017
The Polsinelli Collection acquired their second major work from Lauren Mabry. The pieces are entirely handbuilt, measuring 62x28x28 inches each. Red earthenware, slip, glaze.
Art Miami 2016 with Mindy Solomon Gallery Nov. 29- Dec 6
Art Miami 2016 with Mindy Solomon Gallery Nov. 29-Dec.6
Miami, FL, USA
Nov 29- Dec 6, 2016
Art Miami is the leading international contemporary and modern art fair that takes place each December during art week at the midtown Miami complex in the renowned Wynwood Arts District. It is one of the most important annual contemporary art events in the United States, attracting more than 82,000 collectors, curators, museum professionals and art enthusiasts from around the globe annually. Entering its 27th edition, Art Miami remains committed to showcasing the most important artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries in collaboration with a selection of the world’s most respected galleries.
'Lavender Fields & Pig's Fat: Work From China', The Clay Studio of Philadelphia
'Lavender Fields & Pig's Fat: Work From China', The Clay Studio of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 12- September 25, 2016
Solo Exhibition featuring works produced in Jingdezhen, China. Open August 12- September 25. Opening Reception Friday September 2 (5-8PM) at The Clay Studio 137-139 N 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
'Gradations: A Sense of Successive Stages or Degrees'
'Gradations: A Sense of Successive Stages or Degrees'
Strohl Art Center at the Chautauqua Institution, NY, USA
July 20-Aug 23, 2016