Background
Lauren McKeon was born in 1983.
800 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA 94133, United States
In 2008, Lauren received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco Art Institute.
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, United States
In 2014, McKeon obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University.
Lauren McKeon with Will Rogan.
Lauren McKeon with John McKeon.
Lauren McKeon was born in 1983.
In 2008, Lauren received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco Art Institute. Later, in 2014, she obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University.
Between 2015 and 2017, McKeon was an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.
During her career, Lauren took part in many exhibitions, including "Conceptual Drawing" at Blankspace Gallery in Oakland (2008), "Spring Show" at San Francisco Art Institute (2009), "Point to an end which is always present" at Laurel Gitlen Gallery in New York City (2010), "Bullet Train" at Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco (2011), "Stillwell" at SFSU Fine Arts Gallery in San Francisco (2013), "Build It Up" at Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California (2015), "Endless and The Depth Of Things" at Interface Gallery in Oakland (2016), "Dos and don'ts but mostly don'ts" (solo exhibition) at Interface Gallery in Oakland (2017) and many others.
Currently, she lives and works in Sausaito, California.
Lauren uses materials at hand and her objects are built to be just functional enough. In her oeuvre, sculptures are props, framing questions about performance and absence.
McKeon claims, that making art is a way of creating her own value system in the world, a practice of questioning structures, which frame humans' experience. Many of her sculptures appear to have the purpose of supporting a body or action.
Quotations: "In scale, sculptures relate to my body. In space, they relate to one another, like props without a stage, without bodies, left in a storage room. Construction of these objects is often layered and labored, a practice of inefficiency, in resistance to the value structure of convenience and speed. I plan to continue this system."