Lauren Fensterstock

Lauren Fensterstock draws from her training as a jeweler to create elaborate sculptures and installations that bind our physical and metaphysical landscapes. Extravagant in its material presence and devotional labor, her work commands the eye to the present moment to bring attention to embodied experience. Lauren’s work has been shown internationally including at The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Reykjavik Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Chrysler Museum, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Rijswijk Museum, and Des Moines Art Center. Lauren has been awarded grants from United States Artists, Groot Foundation, and Artist’s Resource Trust. She has been teaching at RISD for more than a decade. Previously she served as the Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair at the University of Georgia, Academic Program Director of the Interdisciplinary MFA in Studio Arts at Maine College of Art, and Interim Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. Lauren holds degrees from the Parsons School of Design (BFA 1997) and SUNY New Paltz (MFA 2000).