Lauren Karjala Painter USA 1991

Lauren Karjala
b. 1991
Lauren Karjala is a figurative painter based in Dover, NH. Her paintings incorporate figures as well as motifs from religion, mythology, and contemporary or personal symbolism to reveal dreamlike, autobiographical narratives that blur the line between memory and imagination. 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).
“These works are part of an ongoing series that serves primarily as an exercise to work with colors outside of my typical palette, explore new subject matter, and work on a smaller scale. These paintings seek to convey subtleties of color within the darkness as well as the qualities of light that shine through it, whether natural or artificial. They carry the same combination of dream, memory, and imagination as my main body of work but don’t rely so heavily on portraiture or the figure to convey a narrative, which is also simpler than usual. The small scale of the paintings helps keep my hand looser and less precious. Over the last 8 months, this series has fundamentally changed how I approach color and narrative in my large scale work, and has increased my confidence as a painter.”
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