Statement & Bio
Photo by Michael Winters © 2022
Statement:
Lauren Karjala brings a vivid, contemporary palette and expressionist immediacy to narrative figural painting and portraiture. Her current body of work explores themes of connection, intimacy, dreams, and symbolism. Her paintings generally serve as images of specific memories - honoring fleeting moments in time that are easily overlooked in the fabric of everyday life. Lauren believes that in recalling a memory via creating a painting, it can unite the physical world with the dream space, and unconscious influences will reveal themselves in the image.
Bio:
Lauren Karjala is a figurative painter based in the seacoast community of New Hampshire. She received a BFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire in 2014. Lauren has been exhibited widely throughout New England, and her work has been featured in three issues of Vanity Fair UK (2022) and the I Like Your Work Podcast Catalog (2023). She currently maintains her studio in the Salmon Falls Mills in Rollinsford, NH.
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