Lauren Fensterstock creates elaborate sculptures and installations that explore the evolving history of our relationship to nature through the merging of an environmental and metaphysical landscape. These intricate artworks are constructed in the material of ladies’ accomplishments—such as mosaic, quilled paper, and shell work—emphasizing the capacity of traditional female crafts to reflect on the complexities of the world beyond the domestic sphere.
Fensterstock has been awarded grants from United States Artists and the Groot Foundation. Her work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at The Chrysler Museum, MOCA Jacksonville, The John Michael Kohler Art Center, The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and Drexel University. Other recent exhibitions include The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Rijswijk Museum, Austin Contemporary, Des Moines Art Center, Wichita Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum, and the Brandywine Museum. Her work is represented by Claire Oliver Gallery in New York.
Outside the studio, Fensterstock has taught, lectured, and critiqued across the country. She recently served as the Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair at the University of Georgia and teaches regularly at the Rhode Island School of Design. She previously served as Academic Program Director of the Interdisciplinary M.F.A. in Studio Arts at Maine College of Art and as Interim Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. Fensterstock holds degrees from the Parsons School of Design (B.F.A. 1997) and SUNY New Paltz (M.F.A. 2000). She is based in Portland, Maine.
