2023 Season I, Season II
![a midsummer night's spawn , acrylic on pvc panel, 48”x 48”, 2022](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1670955663770-5N3CJXZEKEARJMCH2SNT/Walkiewicz_Lauren_01+midsummernightsspawn.jpg)
![a midsummer night's spawn, acrylic on pvc panel, 48”x 48”, 2022](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1670955666629-F4Z093EYB4B9UM63V6ZP/Walkiewicz_Lauren_02+midsummernightsspawn.jpg)
![happy meals , acrylic on pvc panel, 68”x 66” 2022](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1670955669381-7VRU6SSUINPPJ2YPTB55/walkiewicz_lauren_03+happymeals.jpg)
![puddle, acrylic on pvc panel, 34” x24”, 2022](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1670955671534-54WYDOENOCDOERKH0468/walkiewicz_lauren_04+puddle.jpg)
![the hunt, acrylic on pvc panel, 92”x 81” 2022](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1670955674521-553UCZNWI1CPND2DFKBT/walkiewicz_lauren_05+thehunt.jpg)
Artist Statement/ Biography
Lauren Walkiewicz’s work fantasizes about a future evolution of humanity that is in harmony with nature after the climate apocalypse. Our environmental consumption has left us with a debt that will be paid to the gods in blood, floods, and fire. After the reckoning, what will a balanced relationship with nature look like? Using acrylic paint on intricately cut pic panel, Walkiewicz imagines this new world: creatures make homes from discarded trash, while humanoids spawn and run from predatory chickens. This utopia is not the humancentric Garden of Eden, but a place where pleasures are balanced equally with the pain of survival.--
Lauren Walkiewicz (b.1991) is a Detroit born artist living in New York City. She earned a BFA from the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design in 2013 and works as a middle school art educator in the Bronx. She has shown with SPRING/BREAK art show, 550 Gallery, and The Locker Room. She was recently featured in I Like Your Work’s Spring Catalog “Through Mossy Ways” and Create Magazine issue #32. Walkiewicz has been an artist in residence at RUC residency in Valcamonica, Italy.
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