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Lauren Clay - Artists - Cris Worley Fine Arts

Lauren Clay’s installations and sculptures allude to the ethereal architecture of dreams, visionary experiences, and astral travel. Influenced by both personal and collective dream imagery, Clay transforms this amorphous subject matter into a physical reality that is ornate and visceral. Her wall-based sculptures compress and distort space with low-relief architectural carvings, and hand-painted marble. Stairs, doorways, windows, and energetic pathways intertwine, alluding to passageways that are never quite attainable. Clay’s sculptural works are often exhibited within immersive mural-sized wallpaper installations which manipulate and play with the existing gallery architecture, creating additional layers of illusion. At this hypnagogic gateway, the viewer slips into the indeterminate theater of the dream world. These works are an invitation for the viewer to enter, and complete the scene by turning the gaze inward with their own mind’s eye.
Lauren Clay grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Clay’s work is influenced by her interests in dream analysis, Jungian psychology, esoteric texts, mythology, yoga, and architecture.

Installation Views

Lauren Clay, Threshold Drawings

Lauren Clay

Threshold Drawings

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Lauren Clay, Threshold Drawings

Lauren Clay

Threshold Drawings

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Lauren Clay, Threshold Drawings

Lauren Clay

Threshold Drawings

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Lauren Clay, Threshold Drawings

Lauren Clay

Threshold Drawings

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Lauren Clay, Threshold Drawings

Lauren Clay

Threshold Drawings

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Lauren Clay, Threshold Drawings

Lauren Clay

Threshold Drawings

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Lauren Clay, Threshold Drawings

Lauren Clay

Threshold Drawings

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Lauren Clay, Threshold Drawings

Lauren Clay

Threshold Drawings

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Lauren Clay, Threshold Drawings

Lauren Clay

Threshold Drawings

May 20 - June 17, 2023

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch, Cris Worley Fine Arts

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch

Cris Worley Fine Arts

2.15.22 - 5.2.22

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch, Cris Worley Fine Arts

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch

Cris Worley Fine Arts

2.15.22 - 5.2.22

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch, Cris Worley Fine Arts

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch

Cris Worley Fine Arts

2.15.22 - 5.2.22

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch, Cris Worley Fine Arts

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch

Cris Worley Fine Arts

2.15.22 - 5.2.22

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch, Cris Worley Fine Arts

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch

Cris Worley Fine Arts

2.15.22 - 5.2.22

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch, Cris Worley Fine Arts

Tales from the Viewing Room: Lauren Clay | While Sleeping, Watch

Cris Worley Fine Arts

2.15.22 - 5.2.22

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