Lauren Naomi

Since 2004, I have sculpted, painted, and arranged thousands of clay floral petals in sprawling wall-hung, suspended and free-standing structures . With degrees in psychology and art, these floral creations aim to give visual form to the typically unseen within us - our thoughts, contemplative processes, interpretations, responses and reactions as humans. Works also seek to illustrate the beauty found within each individual, as well as how those individuals coexist within community, initiating a dialogue of personal awareness within a larger social context.
I begin with a hand-shaped petal I’ve pulled from a ball of clay and then sculpt petal by petal building up a work- a choreography that examines rhythms and repetition, probing the juxtaposition of symmetry and the organic, the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio, geometry and abstraction. Emotions and intensities play out in physical scales and a myriad of sculptural floral forms and their positioning.
A variety of disciplines including hand-sketching, welding, routing, sculpting, adhering, color bathing, spraying and fine-brush painting are incorporated into my projects, each made in my NYC studio. I work only with a specific air-dry Japanese compound and painting mediums include watercolor, metallic alloys, acrylics, house paints and ink. Each composition is then Dremel-cleaned, tweezed and treated with a UV-protective fixative.