• SOLO PRESENTATION of Manifest Lands Like This
    at Scope Art Show
    represented by Claire Oliver Gallery
    December 5-11, 2023

  • The Totality of Time Lusters the Dusk opens at Chrysler Museum of Art
    January 15, 2022 — June 19, 2022

    In this immersive installation, artist Lauren Fensterstock transforms a gallery within the Chrysler Museum of Art into a darkened and glittering cosmos. Using the labor-intensive technique of mosaic, Fensterstock encrusts her three-dimensional sculptures of a comet and three rain clouds with a mixture of materials, including crystals, black glass, obsidian, onyx, and hematite. The installation invites the viewer into a mysterious world that transcends the earthly and heavenly realms.


    Chrysler Museum of Art

  • Impermanent Conditions opens at Claire Oliver Gallery, NYC

    Impermanent Conditions opens at Claire Oliver Gallery, NYC

    Lauren Fensterstock: Impermanent Conditions
    June 12th - August 28th

    Claire Oliver Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by artist Lauren Fensterstock, Impermanent Conditions. Featuring eight intricately constructed works, Impermanent Conditions investigates the interwoven political, personal, and environmental crises gripping us collectively at this moment, and ultimately reveals a need to look beyond a human-centered reality for meaningful context. The exhibition features seven new wall-mounted mosaic suns (ranging in scale from one to four feet), inspired by the Buddha’s lecture “sermon of the seven suns” in which he describes a series of suns appearing one by one and having different impacts on the ecological landscape. By the appearance of the seventh sun, the cumulative effect of all seven suns hanging in the sky together causes the end of the world. The highly dimensional wall-mounted mosaic sculptures demand close looking as the dense surface is charged with frisson. The seven suns will be accompanied by a large-scale mirror work Obsidian Grotto.

  • Forces of Nature Opens at The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Forces of Nature Opens at The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts. Nature provides a way for these invited artists to ask what it means to be human in a world increasingly chaotic and divorced from our physical landscape. Representing craft media from fiber to mosaic to glass and metals, these artists approach the long history of art’s engagement with the natural world through unconventional and highly personal perspectives.

    Renwick Gallery

  • SMITHSONIAN ANNOUNCES ARTISTS IN 2020 INVITATIONAL

    The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced that artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore and Rowland Ricketts will be featured in the biennial craft invitational at its Renwick Gallery in 2020. All four artists look to nature for inspiration to help explain what it means to be human in a world that is increasingly chaotic and divorced from the physical landscape. Working in a wide range of materials—including fiber, metal and glass—these artists bring new and unique approaches to the long history of art’s engagement with the natural world.

    Fensterstock (b. 1975, resides Portland, Maine) creates detailed, large-scale installation artworks using labor-intensive modes of making drawn from the decorative arts, including paper quilling and mosaic. For this exhibition, the Smithsonian American Art Museum has commissioned a site-specific work—the first in a new series for the artist inspired by sources like “The Book of Miracles,” a richly illustrated 16th-century German manuscript—that will transform a gallery at the Renwick into a celestial landscape that captures the power and awe inherent in natural phenomena.

    |https://americanart.si.edu/press/2019/26/smithsonian-american-art-museum-announces-artists-be-featured-2020-renwick|Smithsonian Announces Artists to be Featured in 2020 Renwick Invitational

  • "NATURE IN ART" OPENS AT MOCAK IN KRAKOW

    Nature in Art
    MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art In Krakow
    26.04.2019 - 29.09.2019

  • "PORTAL" SOLO SHOW OPENS AT THE DODD!

    Dodd Galleries, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia
    March 1 - 29, 2019

    The 2018-2019 Distinguished Dodd Chair, Lauren Fensterstock, will debut a new suite of works that was created while in residence at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

    Dodd Galleries

  • DARK PLACE OF DREAMS OPENS AT THE GIBBES!

    DARK PLACE OF DREAMS:
    Louise Nevelson with Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock, and Kate Gilmore
    on view at:
    Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
    Sept 28 - Jan 6
    Thirty years after her passing, A Dark Place of Dreams revisits the monochromatic assemblages of Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), one of the pioneering American sculptors of the twentieth century, alongside three contemporary artists: Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock, and Kate Gilmore.



  • WORK ON DISPLAY AT SEATTLE ART FAIR

    Claire Oliver Gallery will present
    Suspect Realities at Seattle Art Fair 2018
    August 2, 2018 - August 5, 2018
    Matt Bahen, Judith Schaechter, Laetitia Soulier, Lauren Fensterstock

    CenturyLink Field Event Center, Seattle WA
    Booth J05

  • LAMAR DODD PROFESSORIAL CHAIR AT UGA

    Excited to announce that Lauren will be joining the Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA for the 2018-19 academic year.

    Founded in 1970, the Dodd Chair is a short-term appointment of high distinction intended to honor artists of international standing who have achieved an extraordinary record of exhibition. Artists selected for this position teach and work at the Dodd and hold the rank of full professor, following in the footsteps of Elaine de Kooning, Mel Chin, Willie Cole, David Humphrey, Lola Brooks and Paul Pfeiffer among others. The Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair was established to honor the Dodd’s first Chair, Lamar Dodd, for whom the art school is named. It is an integral part of the Dodd’s commitment to excellence across disciplinary boundaries and reflects the school’s belief that arts research is an essential component of the academic mission of the University of Georgia

    Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair History
    Lauren at The Dodd

  • 2018 VIRIGINA A. GROOT FOUNDATION RECIPIENT!

    2018 VIRIGINA A. GROOT FOUNDATION RECIPIENT!
  • 2018 SHOWS

    DARK PLACE OF DREAMS:
    Louise Nevelson with Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock, and Kate Gilmore
    on view at:
    MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
    April 28 – Sept 9
    and:
    Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
    Sept 28 - Jan 6
    Thirty years after her passing, A Dark Place of Dreams revisits the monochromatic assemblages of Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), one of the pioneering American sculptors of the twentieth century, alongside three contemporary artists: Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock, and Kate Gilmore.

    THE BLEAK AND BURGEONING
    Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, AK
    June 18 – October 7


    NATURAL WONDERS: THE SUBLIME IN CONTEMPORARY ART
    Brandywine River Museum of Art Brandywine, PA
    June 23- Oct 21
    Natural Wonders: the Sublime in Contemporary Art will showcase the work of a dozen major American artists who engage nature in all its fierce magnificence. Beyond just highlighting nature’s beauty, the featured artists—Suzanne Anker, Lauren Fensterstock, Patrick Jacobs, Maya Lin, Roxy Paine, Miljohn Ruperto & Ulrik Heltoft, Diana Thater, Jennifer Trask, Mark Tribe, Kathleen Vance, T.J. Wilcox, and Dustin Yellin—also hint at the more disquieting aspects of the natural world.

  • WORK ON DISPLAY IN THE BRONX!

    Dark and Stormy Night: The Gothic in Contemporary Art
    Lehman Gallery
    250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
    Bronx, NY 10468-1589
    October 28th 2017 – February 10th 2018
    Opening reception: November 1st 5-8pm

  • RUPTURES OPENS AT DES MOINES ART CENTER

    RUPTURES OPENS AT DES MOINES ART CENTER

    RUPTURES
    Des Moines Art Center
    June 3 - Sept 3, 2017

    The Des Moines Art Center will present Ruptures from June 3 – September 3, 2017, an exhibition featuring the work of nine contemporary artists and one artist collective: Berlinde De Bruyckere, Lauren Fensterstock, Mona Hatoum, Roger Hiorns, Steven Young Lee, Beth Lipman, Cornelia Parker, the Propeller Group, Doris Salcedo, and Anne Wilson. Senior Curator Alison Ferris organized Ruptures.

    MORE INFO

  • TWO SUMMER SHOWS OPEN

    SOLO EXHIBITION:
    HOLOPHUSICON
    MOCA Jacksonville
    March 18- June 18, 2017

    THREE PERSON SHOW:
    RITUAL & DESIRE: Lauren Fensterstock, Cassandra C. Jones, and Beth Lipman
    Wichita Art Museum
    May 20 - September 10, 2017

  • SOLO SHOW OPENS VOLTA NY!

    SOLO SHOW OPENS VOLTA NY!

    Claire Oliver is pleased to announce the gallery’s participation at
    the 2017 edition of Volta NY, with Scrying, a solo booth of new
    mixed media sculpture by Portland-based artist Lauren
    Fensterstock.

    For more info on VOLTA NY:
    For more info on SCRYING presented by Claire Oliver:

  • 2017 Exhibitions Announced!

    Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting
    The Currier Museum
    February 25, 2017 - May 21

    Scrying
    a solo presentation at VOLTA NY with Claire Oliver Gallery
    March 1–5

    Holophusicon
    A solo exhibition at MOCA Jacksonville
    March18 - June 18

    Ritual and Desire
    a three person exhibition at Wichita Art Museum
    May 20 – September 10

    Ruptures
    Des Moines Art Center
    June 3 – September 3

    New Work
    a solo exhibition at Claire Oliver
    Oct 19th - Nov 30th

  • WORK ON VIEW AT CURRIER MUSEUM

    Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting
    February 25, 2017 - May 21, 2017
    The Currier Museum
    150 Ash Street Manchester, NH 03104

    Deep Cuts will showcase work by contemporary artists who reconsider, redefine and even subvert the centuries-old practice of paper cutting. In the tradition of the craft, the art to be featured in the exhibition is impressive and intricate, but its subject matter is updated for the 21st century. Addressing deeper personal or social themes, the work will touch upon complex reference points including the various cultural, economic and environmental associations imbued in the humble medium of paper.

    Artists featured in the exhibition: Elizabeth Alexander, Noriko Ambe, Hina Aoyama, Doug Beube, Ambreen Butt, Jonathan Callan, Rob Carter, Charles Clary, Brian Dettmer, Andrea Dezsö, Lauren Fensterstock, Adam Fowler, Randy Garber, Meg Hitchcock, Jim Hodges, Li Hongbo, Fred H C Liang, Marco Maggi, Youdhi Maharjan, Stefana McClure, Lisa Nilsson, Julian Opie, Shannon Rankin, Nikki Rosato, Kim Rugg, Mathias Schmied, Jane South, Jill Sylvia, Sarah Sze, Yuken Teruya, Robert The, Randal Thurston, August Ventimiglia, Mark Wagner, Kara Walker and C. K. Wilde.

  • United States Artists names Lauren Fensterstock 2016 USA Barr Fellow!


    Fellows are selected through a rigorous, highly competitive process involving hundreds of experts, scholars, administrators and artists. USA Fellows spotlight the importance of originality across every creative discipline, celebrating the broad diversity of American artistic practices from coast to coast, cultivating a creative ecology that is diverse in age, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.

    unitedstatesartists

  • work included at KMAC show opening in October!

    Sisters of The Moon
    KMAC: Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
    Louisville, KY
    October 15, 2016 - January 8, 2017, 2nd Floor Gallery
    exhibit info

    Sisters of the Moon provides a setting for artists who engage with ideas around mysticism and mythology, illuminating the creative spaces where spirituality, art and female identity converge. Rooted in the belief that women possess a greater connectedness to the surrounding environment, embodying the forces of nature and more fully linked with divine power, this exhibition provides a unique setting for art exploring the poetics of nature and the feminine divine.

    Artists include: Evie Falci, Lauren Fensterstock, Chitra Ganesh, Elizabeth Insogna, Kathleen Lolley, Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running, Katarzyna Majak, Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz, Connie Roberts, Kiki Smith, Sazi Thomas, Saya Woolfalk, Lina Iris Viktor and others.

  • COLORLESS FIELD GOES TO THE NETHERLANDS

    COLORLESS FIELD GOES TO THE NETHERLANDS

    2016 Paper Biennial Rijswijk
    11 June - 18 September 2016
    Museum Rijswijk
    Museum Rijswijk, Herenstraat 67, 2282 BR Rijswijk, 070 3903617
    Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 5 pm

  • SOLO SHOW IN NYC OPENS APRIL 14

    SOLO SHOW IN NYC OPENS APRIL 14

    The Order of Things
    Claire Oliver Gallery
    513 West 26th St
    New York, NY
    April 14- May 21, 2016


  • THEORIES OF THE EARTH at WHEATON COLLEGE

    THEORIES OF THE EARTH at WHEATON COLLEGE

    Wheaton College

    Gallery Opening & Reception
    February 4, 2016 at 5:30-8:00 p.m.
    Haas Concourse & Lobby, Watson Fine Arts

    Artist Talk by Beth Lipman and Lauren Fensterstock
    April 6, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.
    Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts

    All events are free and open to the public.

  • WORK ON VIEW AT PULSE MIAMI

    PULSE Contemporary Art Fair
    December 1 – 5
    Miami Beach
    in Booth C15

  • 3500 sq ft SOLO SHOW OPENS IN PHILADELPHIA

    LAUREN FENSTERSTOCK: FORAYS & FOLLIES
    Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University
    July 17-August 28
    Opening Reception: Friday, July 17, 5-7 PM
    3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
    Leonard Pearlstein Gallery

  • NEW PROJECT DEBUTS AT PULSE NYC 3.5-8

    PULSE Project at PULSE New York
    Booth A15
    The Metropolitan Pavillion
    125 West 18th St., New York City
    March 5-8
    pulse

  • NEW WORK AT PULSE MIAMI DEC 4-7

    Pulse Miami with Sienna Patti Contemporary
    Booth C15
    Indian Beach Park 4601 Collins Ave.
    Dec. 4-7, 2014
    sienna patti contemporary
    artwork details on artsy
    pulse

  • NEW WORK ON DISPLAY AT INDEPENDENT ART PROJECTS THROUGH SEPT 21, 2014

    June 26- September 21, 2014
    Independent Art Projects
    1315 MASS MoCA Way
    North Adams, MA 01247

  • TWO SUMMER 2014 SHOWS

    RECURRENCE
    Edgar Arceneaux, Lauren Fensterstock, Colter Jacobsen, Nick McPhail,
    Ariana Papademetropoulos
    curated by Luisa Aguilar Solis and Georgia Horn
    FRIDMAN GALLERY
    287 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013
    July 17 - August 15, 2014
    Opening Reception: Thursday, July 17, 6-8pm


    ---AND---


    Lianghong Feng, Lauren Fensterstock, Sin-Ying Ho, and Sergei Isupov
    June 26- July 27, 2014
    Independent Art Projects
    1315 MASS MoCA Way
    North Adams, MA 01247

  • TWO NEW SHOWS OPEN IN JAN 2014

    SURFACE:Nicole Chesney, Kristina Estell, Lauren Fensterstock, Sylvie Fleury, Beth Lipman, Marilyn Minter, Douglas Weathersby
    Jan 23
    Stephen B. Paine Gallery at Mass Art
    Boston, MA
    The surface is where the viewer meets the art. Though immediately visible, it is also a liminal space, dividing interior from exterior and obscuring what exists beneath. With this complexity of meaning as a point of departure, "Surface" brings together seven multidisciplinary artists whose works are diverse in media, content, and approach but who touch on common themes such as impermanence, fragility, and unsatisfied desires.

    -and-

    Lauren Fensterstock: Preparatory Drawings
    Jan 3-18
    Aucocisco Galleries
    Portland, ME
    aucocisco

  • SOLO SHOW OPENS AT SIENNA PATTI CONTEMPORARY!

    Lauren Fensterstock: New Work
    August 16 - September 23, 2013
    Artist Reception: August 16, 2013 from 5-8 PM
    Sienna Gallery
    80 Main Street
    Lenox, MA 01240
    413 637 8386
    |http://http://www.siennapatti.com|exhibit info|

  • NEW WORK AT COLLECTIVE.1 DESIGN FAIR, NYC

    Exhibiting with Sienna Gallery
    Pier 57, New York
    May 8-11, 2013
    Collective

  • SOLO SHOW AT JMKAC OPEN NOW THRU AUG. 18, 2013!

    Lauren Fensterstock: The Celebration of Formal Effects, Whether Natural or Artificial
    on view from 3/3/13- 8/18/13 at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI
    JMKAC
    "Creating three distinct gardens using ornately quilled, cut, and sculpted black paper, the artist presents highly crafted, delicate installations that embody the contradictions of all gardens. Her installation allows viewers to marvel at the human imagination that went into creating worlds out of nature. Simultaneously, the choice to use black to create the gardens symbolizes grief, perhaps lamenting the moments when human imagination gives way to arrogance, and “the natural” is imposed on nature."

  • ON VIEW IN IRELAND

    Dubh: Dialogues in Black
    Feb 2 - March 15, 2012
    Oliver Sears Gallery
    29 Molesworth Street
    Dublin, Ireland

  • COMING TO TEXAS!

    Two Takes on One Space: Lauren Fensterstock and Steve Wiman
    Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse
    Exhibition: December 15, 2011–February 19, 2012
    Member's Reception: January 11, 2012, 5-8 PM
    Artist Talks: January 11, 2012, 7 PM
    * To complement my Smithson inspired work, AMOA-Arthouse will screen Robert Smithson's film Spiral Jetty (1970) on Feb 9 at 7PM. Too cool!

  • JOHN BISBEE AND LAUREN FENSTERSTOCK

    November 9 - December 3
    Opening Reception: November 9, 5-7 PM
    Aucocisco
    89 Exchange Street
    Portland, ME 04101
    phone: 207.775.2222

  • DUBH: DIALOGUES IN BLACK

    American Irish Historical Society
    991 Fifth Avenue. New York, NY 10028
    October 7th to November 13th, 2011
    Open: Thursday - Sunday 10-5pm

    In dubh; dialogues in black international curator Brian Kennedy looks at black as both a physical and emotional starting point for the most interesting creative voices from Ireland in dialogue with their American peers. This project also places great importance on how design/craft is viewed and discussed; as a result the catalogue for dubh; dialogues in black will include essays by Irish and American writers, who will discuss and debate the issues surrounding the exhibition.

    Following the show in New York, the exhibition returns to Ireland where it will appear at Oliver Sears Gallery, Molesworth Street, Dublin from February 2 to March 15, 2012. Further information on both these events, and other future projects, can be found at STUDIOpractice

  • TWO SHOWS OPEN IN MAY!

    Lauren Fensterstock: Incidents of Garden Displacement (see below)
    and
    Field of Vision: Artists Explore Place
    May 22 – October 2, 2011
    Racine Art Museum
    Our feelings or memories about a place are formed by how a location (beach, forest, field, building) feels, not just by how it looks. Details are often minimized by overall thoughts and impressions—sounds, textures, light, and smells. The nine artists represented in Field of Vision respond to and explore their perceptions of “place” through carved wax flowers, hanging plants made of porcelain paper clay, atmospheric paintings on mirrored glass, and jewelry referencing landscapes. Artists whose works are featured in this exhibition include Olga de Amaral (Colombia), Nicole Chesney (RI), Lauren Fensterstock (ME), Mary Giles (MN), Sarah Hood (WA), Rebecca Hutchinson (MA), Jolynn Krystosek (NY), Harold O’Connor (CO) and Beverly Penn (TX).

  • SOLO SHOW OPENS AT OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

    Lauren Fensterstock: Incidents of Garden Displacement
    Opening Reception: May 1, 2011 from 5 to 7pm.
    May 1 - June 26, 2011
    Ogunquit Museum of American Art

  • NEW WORK TO BE ON VIEW AT PULSE NYC

    PULSE Contemporary Art Fair
    MARCH 3-6, 2011
    Metropolitan Pavilion
    125 West 18th Street, New York
    Booth B-7: Sienna Gallery
    PULSE

  • SOLO SHOW OPENS AT SIENNA GALLERY

    Lauren Fensterstock: Mound
    August 20 - September 26, 2010
    Artist Reception: August 21, 2010 from 4-6 PM
    Sienna Gallery
    80 Main Street
    Lenox, MA 01240
    413 637 8386
    exhibit info

  • SOLO SHOW OPENS AT WALKER CONTEMPORARY

    Lauren Fensterstock: Of Groves, Labyrinths, Dedals, Cabinets, Cradles, Close-walks, Galleries, Pavillions, Portico's, Lanterns, and other Relievo's: of Topiary and Hortulan Architecture
    april 2-30, 2010
    opening reception, friday april 2, 6-8pm
    WALKER CONTEMPORARY
    450 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA
    walker contemporary