Lauren Alyssa Howard was born in a Southeastern town in Alabama. This 'lower-middle working class' upbringing is reference for her mixed media involving identity, gender, and place.
There's a Special Place in Heaven... is an installation involving the "destructed memories of rural lower class" exploited through texture, color, and commentary on 'southern' gender roles. "By placing objects of the grotesque next to or inside small, decorated spaces, a discomforting tension is created that I explore through the use of drawing, painting, and sculpture."
There's a Special Place in Heaven..., 2009
Detail of There's a Special Place in Heaven...", 2009
Detail of There's a Special Place in Heaven...", 2009She uses domestic props to imply time period, class, reality and memory. She also relies heavily on symbolism to communicate with her audience. The deer (male symbol) and sheep (female symbol) are used to "create an alternate world where masculine and feminine become both ambiguous as well as polar opposites, as humans interact with and even begin to become animals."
She uses a similar technique in her mixed media Deer Series.
Deer Series, 2009
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