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Lauren E. Cunningham
ARTWORKS
ABOUT
STATEMENT
BIOGRAPHY
EXHIBITION HISTORY
PRESS
2023
Sun Study

2020
Toothpick Tree

2017
Scorched Earth

2014
Hope

2012
Tomorrow
LIE
Relief

2011
Under Construction

2010
Rope
Circumstance
Knife
Deep Seat
Focus
Window
Conveyor
Chaos
Purge

2009
Graveside Performance
Echoes
Philosopher's Room
Push
Curiosity
Portrait of the Artist

2008
Locus
Burst
Untitled (Bird)
Coil
Shell
Hearth

2007
In-Between
Cairn
Untitled (Broken)
The Source
Dipoint Cascade

2006
Hole Punch Collage II
Hole Punch Collage I
Bronze Combs
Comb Curtain

All images © Lauren Cunningham 2023
Artworks
Deep Seat
2010
Tableau with performers and handcrafted stool, mirror, and costumes

Deep Seat raises questions about the transferring and inheriting of traditional female roles within the family unit. The artwork depicts a scene of an older woman sitting on a stool behind a younger woman. Twine still in hand, the older woman has just braided the hair of the younger woman, who inspects herself in a mirror. The age difference between the women and the intimacy involved in hair-tying suggest that they are mother and daughter.



Upon closer inspection, one realizes that the mother's stool has brooms for legs, and the braid in the daughter's hair matches the stitching of the brooms. These anomalies suggest that the mother's role in the family is domestic, as indicated by her position atop the broom-stool, and that she is literally and figuratively grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps.