Lauren Cline creates colorful, turbulent compositions with paint and drawing materials as well as hand-painted paper and fabric. Her work is about the family: the relationships it contains and the archetypical roles it invites each of us to try on, to perform or to violate, and then to renegotiate for ourselves. Cline explores what this means both through depicted narrative themes and through process. Her compositions are not preplanned, but built up over many layers of paint and collage that allow earlier iterations to break through to the surface. Each painting betrays its own past, laying bare its history of having lived many lives and occupied many points of view before arriving at its final state. The finished works are rife with contradictions, with depictions of growth as well as back-sliding into chaos, reordering, and internal negotiations. Like the family itself, each work is a living ecosystem perpetually in progress, not unfinished, but in a state of eternally coming into being.

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Cline is from Evanston, IL, and has a BFA from the Academy of Art in San Francisco and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work can be found in private collections across the country and abroad, and has been exhibited widely in New York City and San Francisco. She lives and works in Queens, NY. 

 

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