Lauren Mabry

EDUCATION

2007 BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

2012 MFA University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska

RESIDENCIES

2012 Artist in Residence, Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

2012-2015 Artist in Residence, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2014 Artist in Residence, LH Project, Joseph, Oregon

2015 Artist in Residence, Mission Clay Products, Phoenix, Arizona

2015 Artist in Residence, Jingdezhen International Studio at Taoxichuan, Resident Artist, Jingdezhen, China

2017 Artist in Residence, Gaya Ceramic, Resident Artist, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

2012– Professional Artist

BIOGRAPHY

Lauren Mabry is known for creating earthenware ceramic sculpture. Work is typically focused on the cylinder in various stand-alone and assemblage presentations. Through a painterly approach on three-dimensional forms, Mabry investigates the relationship between sculpture, painting, and ceramics. 

Pieces often go through a process of applying white or colored slip in the leather hard stage. Mabry's works are then either left to honor the original cylinder form, or altered in some way. Pieces are sometimes pulled apart in the leather hard stage and re-constructed in a new way, cut, and molded to create a wall piece in the finished state, or arranged in multiples. Mabry further draws connections to abstract painting, minimalism, and process art.

Glazes and line-work are expressive and intuitive. Mabry fires her work in an electric kiln multiple times. Applying a full color spectrum range of glazes. She focuses on developing glaze drips and spills that flow in and out of the ceramic form in the finished state. About her work, Mabry states that her aim is to create pieces that are scintillating and dramatic.