Lauren Fensterstock

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Lauren Fensterstock

Both tempting and threatening, Fensterstock creates objects of desire whose beauty draws us in, only to repel with intimations of dark secrets. This tension culminates in an illusion of depth and motion that leaves viewers with the eerie sensation that these shadowy gardens have a sinister life—one that will cause them to grow and change long after we have left the room.  
- Carol Diehl, excerpt from Radical Sentimentalism: The World of Lauren Fensterstock  
 
Lauren Fensterstock is an artist, writer, and curator based in Portland, Maine. Lauren’s  work is held in private and public collections internationally.  Her artwork has been featured in recent exhibitions at The John Michael Kohler Art Center (WI), The Austin Museum of Art  (TX), The Bowdoin College Museum of Art  (ME), the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design (CA), The Ogunquit Museum of American Art (ME), the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (OR), the Portland Museum of Art (ME), The DUMBO Art Center (NY), among others. Outside the studio, Lauren’s curatorial projects and published writings have been featured internationally. Lauren holds degrees from the Parsons School of Design (BFA 1997) and SUNY New Paltz (MFA 2000).