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
Focus
2010
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Performer, wood boxes, plaster, fabric, and stage light

This performance juxtaposes two roles of the professional artist. On the one hand, the artist must be present in the public sphere. On the other hand, the artist requires solitude to be creative and productive.

In Focus, a young woman improvises on the violin inside a box. The tone of her music fluctuates between grandiose and sorrowful. Extending from her box is a plaster cast of her face, which cranes toward and is illuminated by a stage light housed in a larger, adjacent box. While the light and plaster-cast face focus intensely on each other, the performer focuses on her music.