Solo Exhibition Some Lands Are Made of Light
at Claire Oliver Gallery
Nov 14, 2024 - January 18, 2025

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

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: 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

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
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art In Krakow
26.04.2019 - 29.09.2019

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:
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.

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

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

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.

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
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

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

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:

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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


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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

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.

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

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

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."

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

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!

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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