Artist Statement/ Biography

Lauren Walkiewicz’s work fantasizes about a future evolution of humanity that is in harmony with nature after the climate apocalypse. Our environmental consumption has left us with a debt that will be paid to the gods in blood, floods, and fire. After the reckoning, what will a balanced relationship with nature look like? Using acrylic paint on intricately cut pic panel, Walkiewicz imagines this new world: creatures make homes from discarded trash, while humanoids spawn and run from predatory chickens. This utopia is not the humancentric Garden of Eden, but a place where pleasures are balanced equally with the pain of survival.

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Lauren Walkiewicz (b.1991) is a Detroit born artist living in New York City. She earned a BFA from the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design in 2013 and works as a middle school art educator in the Bronx. She has shown with SPRING/BREAK art show, 550 Gallery, and The Locker Room. She was recently featured in I Like Your Work’s Spring Catalog “Through Mossy Ways” and Create Magazine issue #32. Walkiewicz has been an artist in residence at RUC residency in Valcamonica, Italy.

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