Lauren Alyssa Howard 2009
Lauren Alyssa Howard was born and raised in a small town in Southeastern Alabama. After moving to the Metro-Atlanta area in 1996, she attended the University of Georgia where she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Drawing. She currently resides in Tampa, Florida where she is a Masters of Fine Arts candidate with an overall emphasis in Painting and Drawing. Her current work reflects the drastic changes between current place and what one considers home. Drawing from her rural upbringing, Howard uses references from a particular lower-middle working class history to address identity, gender, and place. Her work has been exhibited nationally and has most recently been shown in the Tampa Museum of Art's, "Art After Dark," Wichita Center for the Art's, "Pastel National Exhibition," and The Contemporary Art Museum of Tampa's, "Annual Art Exhibition."
Lauren Alyssa Howard was born and raised in a small town in Southeastern Alabama. After moving to the Metro-Atlanta area in 1996, she attended the University of Georgia where she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Drawing. She currently resides in Tampa, Florida where she is a Masters of Fine Arts candidate with an overall emphasis in Painting and Drawing. Her current work reflects the drastic changes between current place and what one considers home. Drawing from her rural upbringing, Howard uses references from a particular lower-middle working class history to address identity, gender, and place. Her work has been exhibited nationally and has most recently been shown in the Tampa Museum of Art's, "Art After Dark," Wichita Center for the Art's, "Pastel National Exhibition," and The Contemporary Art Museum of Tampa's, "Annual Art Exhibition."
Statement
My most recent work deals with the aspect of re-location and its affect(s) on my present self. Having rarely been satisfied in my current place, I have begun to question the reasons for this uneasiness. Displacement and memory play a large role in my art. Why do we as a culture place so much emphasis on the need to create memories? Why are these vague, half-truths so important to us? As we become more global, this problem of displacement becomes increasingly greater. Feeling out of place and confused forces many to retreat into a time and place in which he or she felt more content or "at home." My work reflects a melding of the memories and homes I've experienced and thus placed emphasis on them in order to feel content in my own life in the midst of this global society.
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