BIOGRAPHY

Lauren Mayer grew up in New Hampshire, raised with a love for the land, the snow, and solitude offered by the hush of the woods. This connection to the land followed her throughout her education and throughout her professional career as a ceramic artist and teacher. She received her BFA in ceramics from Michigan State University, a post-baccalaureate degree in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and her MFA from The University of Colorado, Boulder in 2009. Lauren has taught at multiple intuitions along the Front Range of Colorado, including Metropolitan State University of Denver, CU, Boulder, The University of Denver, and Front Range Community College. Lauren has shown her work nationally and internationally, most recently at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas, Atlantic Gallery in New York, Workhouse Clay International, and Shapes of Influence 2023. Recently, she enjoyed a residency at Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts and worked as a summer as a studio assistant at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine. Lauren is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Gallery Director at Colorado Mountain College, Aspen.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I have a love for the conceptual labyrinths of making and the different solutions each building technique offered by clay. Each body of work I create embraces different processes and has a distinctive answer to the same question of time – how we experience and record its passing, how we remember, what we remember. It’s the woven knot of concept, material, and process.

In the functional work I create, form, surface, and haptic experience are brought together in the familiar, collective object of a cup. The architecture and curves of each vessel encourage and modulate the soft flow and variation of the glaze, pooling in textural ledges, stopping on hard edges. The frozen moments of fluid glaze halted by temperature and time offer a physical manifestation of the memory of the kiln, a moment in perpetuity. The surface is luscious and soft, a surrogate to the memory of the body.

Website: laurenmayerstudios.com 
Instagram: @lauren.n.mayer