Lauren Fensterstock

Lauren Fensterstock lives and works in Portland, Maine. Her work has been featured in recent shows at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Kohler Art Center, Portland Museum of Art, DUMBO Art Center, Boston Center for the Arts, MASS Art Gallery, and Albany Airport. Lauren holds degrees from The Parsons School of Design (BFA 1997) and SUNY New Paltz (MFA 2000).

Ornament has been perceived as both corrupt and sublime at different moments in history. My work uses ornament as a language to touch each of these terrains. Unlike other objects made with heirloom quality material, these works are not static. They will continue to rot, change, and decompose. By deviating from the grand permanence with which ornament is generally associated, I hope to raise questions about the association of aesthetics with morality, lasting with meaning.