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Originally from Evansville, Indiana, Lauren McAdams attended Murray State University in Kentucky where she played Division I soccer and received her BFA. With her thesis exhibition featuring metalworking, jewelry, ceramics, woodworking, and video, Lauren began to explore multiple mediums to discuss different theme oriented work. In an effort to adventure and allow the work to expand, she traveled on two occasions to Europe to study and view contemporary art work. This has had the largest impact on the art.
Currently attending Arizona State University where she is receiving an MFA with an emphasis in metalworking and jewelry, Lauren has expanded her working materials to foundry, welding, blacksmithing, silk-screening on fibers, and performance. She has taught multiple metalworking and 3D design courses and enjoys the balance of teaching and making art. Her thesis exhibition is April 14- April 18, 2008 at the Harry Wood Gallery in the Art Building on the Tempe campus.
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| The unpredictable nature of humans is reason for conversation. As each person has to cooperate equally to converse, thus conversation can lead to a sense of equality. My work uses vintage communication tools as symbols to discuss how humans are connected while focusing on interaction, distance, and isolation and the impact on romantic relationships. By using everyday images like a phone receiver, towel dispenser, engagement ring and a tin can and string telephone, I reflect on how objects play a role in the ways we interact with each other while also discussing the types of communication that are not always verbal. Although these objects seem just as impersonal as text messaging, they represent a crux in our history where people began to disconnect while staying in contact, a phenomenon that I parallel with romantic relationships. Using symbols of communication from my lifetime, I also tackle the larger question of what happens to our communication as technology improves. Is it really advancing? |
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