Lauren Fensterstock

Lauren Fensterstock is a Portland artist and curator. She trained as a painter and jewelry maker at Parsons School of Design, New York City, and further refined her talents in graduate school at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her recent work embraces a perceived conflict, twisting nature with the manmade, the uncommon with common objects. Fensterstock’s influences range from 16th Century portraits of Anne Boleyn to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” Each of these delicate pieces is a conceptual inquiry into the relationship between aesthetics and morality. A menacing spider’s shadow is cast in tiny rubies: is it beautiful or lethal?