ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lauren Faulkner is a visual artist and teacher based in New York City. Utilizing printmaking techniques Faulkner’s compositions begin with low-relief, matrices of collected and found objects that are run through the printing press to create embossed paper frames. Building on the embossed paper surface, Faulkner responds to girlhood narratives and imagined worlds in graphite and oil paint. The attention to the materiality of natural elements in Faulkner’s work is informed by her Pacific Northwest upbringing and professional experience as an award-winning floral designer in New York City. Faulkner received her BA from the University of Puget Sound and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2023. Faulkner teaches drawing, painting and monotype printmaking at several institutions across New York City. She has been published in Create Magazine and was the Annual Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship for Visual Artists Award recipient at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. Faulkner has been the recipient of the LCU Fund for Women’s Education Scholarship and the Leslie T. and Francis Posey Scholarship.