Uncovered Spaces Participating Artist Lauren Sandler (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor and Program Head of Ceramics at Temple University School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Centuripe Series: Weights and Bobbers, earthenware with glaze and gold luster, 20″T x 11″W x 11″D, 2019
Centuripe Series: Oil Lamps, earthenware with glaze and gold luster, 20″T x 11″W x 11″D, 2019
Artist Statement
"My work examines the myriad chronicles told by objects, a shared intersection of body, culture, and history. I look to artifacts as a means of dismantling and reconstructing; a mutable archive of cultural evidence as histories entwine with present moments. Through fragmented forms, allegoric containers, and quotidian tableau, I explore stories erased, distorted, and rewritten. I utilize the vessel as an assemblage of parts, an accumulation of material culture to offer multiple perspectives. The work becomes a site to examine economies of power, migration and occupation, labor and commodification. Through this process, disparate systems, forces, and ideologies converge as layered narratives combine in one form."
Biography
Lauren Sandler is a ceramic artist and educator whose work deconstructs mythologies and investigates narratives of power and perspective. Sandler exhibits nationally; she lectures and publishes concerning contemporary and historic issues in ceramics. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from Penn State University, and undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Ceramics from Ithaca College and SUNY New Paltz. She is Assistant Professor and Program Head of Ceramics at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and currently serves on the Board of The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts as Director at Large.