Exhibition by Emerging Akron Artist, Lauren Baker

Lauren received her BFA in Sculpture from Kent State University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.  She will be exhibiting her new installation piece titled “Glacial Uprooting of a Cotton Candy Dream”.  The exhibition will be on view from September 7 – October 15, 2022.

She writes, “Existing in the space between familiarity and fantasy, the organic and the contrived, “Glacial Uprooting of a Cotton Candy Dream” focuses on ideas of the simulacra. When peeking into a microscope, dendrites become tree roots, osseous tissue become cave formations, and zygotes become astronomical orbs. Visual similarities, linking the human body to growth structures in nature are studied in a quest to understand the intangible universe beyond the self. Rooted in playful imagination and contradiction, “Glacial Uprooting of a Cotton Candy Dream” strategically deviates from mere imitation. Recycled and highly synthetic materials falsify the natural, posing larger questions about the reciprocal relationship between human beings and the environment to which we inhabit.“