Lauren Whearty
Still Life with Drill & Van Gogh Mug
2018
oil on canvas
15" x 20"
Price: $750
2018
oil on canvas
15" x 20"
Price: $750
Still Life with Mug & Vase
2018
oil on canvas
15" x 20"
Price: $750
2018
oil on canvas
15" x 20"
Price: $750
Still Life with Kathleen's Sunflowers
2019
oil on canvas
16" x 18"
Price: $750
2019
oil on canvas
16" x 18"
Price: $750
Statement
As a female identifying painter I am compelled by the unassuming and overlooked qualities of the genre of Still Life painting. This makes it a rich area for dynamic invention, exploration, and personal narrative. I paint the stuff of daily life from domestic spaces, to food and objects of contemporary material culture, to flowers, and textiles. I work with these objects in order to address issues of taste, class, and the sentimental.
Through the physical act of painting and the still life genre I bring focus to these subjects in order to evoke a sense of interiority from their arrangement, use, and context. These set ups show narratives of my own personal and intimate experiences, through the organization of specific objects of culture and everyday use that are composed to create new relationships. The inherent familiarity of these objects and settings invites viewers to make connections between that which is deeply personal as well as shared, like painting my “I ❤️ My Mom” coffee mug. It can hold multitudes from the kitsch and ubiquitous, to the sentimental, or intimate and immemorial. Painting from these humble and daily subjects is personal, radical, and extremely important.
Artist Bio
Lauren Whearty is an artist, educator, and curator living and working in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA from The Ohio State University, and her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and is a Co- Director at Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective in Brooklyn, NY. Lauren has attended residencies such as Yale’s Summer School of Art through the Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship, The Vermont Studio Center, Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat through the Ora Lerman Trust, and the Golden Foundation Artist Residency.
Some places where her work has been exhibited include The Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE), The State Museum of PA (Harrisburg, Pa), The Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia, PA), Gross McCleaf Gallery (Philadelphia, Pa), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Satellite Contemporary (Las Vegas, NV), Monaco (St Louis, MO), The Painting Center (New York, NY), 11 Newel (Brooklyn, NY), Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY), Sam and Adele Golden Gallery (New Berlin, NY), Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (New York, NY), Deanna Evans Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and Dorrance Hamilton Gallery (Newport, CT). Lauren currently teaches at The University of the Arts and Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia.
website: www.laurenwhearty.com
Instagram: @lwhearty
As a female identifying painter I am compelled by the unassuming and overlooked qualities of the genre of Still Life painting. This makes it a rich area for dynamic invention, exploration, and personal narrative. I paint the stuff of daily life from domestic spaces, to food and objects of contemporary material culture, to flowers, and textiles. I work with these objects in order to address issues of taste, class, and the sentimental.
Through the physical act of painting and the still life genre I bring focus to these subjects in order to evoke a sense of interiority from their arrangement, use, and context. These set ups show narratives of my own personal and intimate experiences, through the organization of specific objects of culture and everyday use that are composed to create new relationships. The inherent familiarity of these objects and settings invites viewers to make connections between that which is deeply personal as well as shared, like painting my “I ❤️ My Mom” coffee mug. It can hold multitudes from the kitsch and ubiquitous, to the sentimental, or intimate and immemorial. Painting from these humble and daily subjects is personal, radical, and extremely important.
Artist Bio
Lauren Whearty is an artist, educator, and curator living and working in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA from The Ohio State University, and her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and is a Co- Director at Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective in Brooklyn, NY. Lauren has attended residencies such as Yale’s Summer School of Art through the Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship, The Vermont Studio Center, Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat through the Ora Lerman Trust, and the Golden Foundation Artist Residency.
Some places where her work has been exhibited include The Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE), The State Museum of PA (Harrisburg, Pa), The Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia, PA), Gross McCleaf Gallery (Philadelphia, Pa), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Satellite Contemporary (Las Vegas, NV), Monaco (St Louis, MO), The Painting Center (New York, NY), 11 Newel (Brooklyn, NY), Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY), Sam and Adele Golden Gallery (New Berlin, NY), Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (New York, NY), Deanna Evans Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and Dorrance Hamilton Gallery (Newport, CT). Lauren currently teaches at The University of the Arts and Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia.
website: www.laurenwhearty.com
Instagram: @lwhearty
