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Starting Bid - $2,500

One of the most virtuosic artists using glaze as a sculptural medium, Lauren Mabry is also a distinguished alumna of the Resident Artist Program and a staple of the Philadelphia art community. Mabry's bold use of color, juxtaposition of patterns, and investigations into the transitional state of objects is on full display with this piece. The multicolored structure features a rainbow of graphic lines and dots along with more organic shapes that splatter, run, and expand. Inside the structure black and white ooze down, gathering and pooling at the base of the work. A truly unique and exciting piece that is bound to draw envious eyes.

Mabry's ceramic forms engage with Modernist histories of abstraction - she notes Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hoffman as inspirations - as well as transforming the field of ceramics through their painterly focus. A master of glaze techniques, Mabry's works are constructed with these fluid materials in mind. Each form articulates pathways for color that reinforce clay's engagement with the earth and its gravitational pull.

A former Resident Artist and teacher at The Clay Studio from 2012 to 2015, Lauren Mabry is originally from Madison, Wisconsin. She received her BFA in ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute in 2007 and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012. She has also studied abroad in Kecskemét, Hungary at the International Ceramics Studio. Her most recent residency was at The Archie Bray Foundation For Ceramic Arts (summer '12). Mabry has work in permanent collections at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS) and The Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE). Her exhibitions include The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, and many more.

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