Screens & Grids with Lauren Krukoski

May 8, 2025

Abstracting imagery and creating patterns from her lived experiences, Lauren Krukowski mirrors the processes and aesthetics of textile traditions in print and handmade paper. Her work undergoes various iterations as it is layered, cut, and sewn, resulting in combinations of color, texture, and pattern influenced by textiles, quilting, and properties of light. In this talk, Lauren will discuss her multi-disciplinary practice and the works in paper she made during her 2024-25 West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lauren Krukowski's work moves fluidly through hand papermaking, printmaking, and textile processes. She stretches everyday objects and ideas from her immediate surroundings beyond the familiar and expected through paper and fabric collage. In March 2025, she completed the West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné. Previous awards and artist residencies have supported her work and research, including the Stanley Award for International Research Fellowship (2022), Print Workshop Residency at David Krut Workshop (2022), Guttenberg Arts' Space and Time Artist Residency (2020), and the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship Residency at Anderson Center (2016). Recent exhibitions include "Tacit Knowledge" at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and "And, And, And" at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' Project Art Gallery. Lauren earned an MFA in printmaking and papermaking from the University of Iowa in 2024 and a BFA in painting and drawing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Peninsula School of Art in Door County, WI.

https://www.laurenkrukowskistudio.com/