Background

Lauren McKeon was born in 1983.

Education

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.

Career

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.

Achievements

• Lauren McKeon is an American artist, who became known for her works, coming from a background in dance.
  
  During her relatively short career, she received several grants and scholarships, including Merit Scholarship from San Francisco Art Institute in 2008, Victoria Horne Oakie Scholarship in 2012, Alternative Exposure Grant from Southern Exposure arts organization in 2013 and others.
  
  McKeon’s work is in the public collection of Deutsche Bank, New York.

Works

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• artwork

  • Extension cord

  • Psychic pressure point

  • Ankle weights (entanglement)

  • Humans

  • Parts to rub

  • Encrypted phantom

  • Breach

  • FTW PFD

  • Mollusk

  • Mono Block

  • Focal Crust

  • The Depth of Things: Trap Door

• installation

  • The tide and the claw

  • GPS

  • WI-FI

  • Beginnings and Ends 5

  • Beginnings and Ends 2

  • Untitled (prop door)

  • Humanity Spectrum

  • Basic body

Views

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."