Past Resident Artist

Lauren Gallaspy, 2015–2016 Matsutani Fellow, 2016-2017 Etchart-Satre Fellow
summer resident artist 2014 and 2015; long-term resident artist 2015–2017

Lauren Gallaspy makes sculptures, vessels and drawings about the sometimes violent, sometimes pleasurable, and almost always complex consequences that occur when bodies and objects come into contact with one another. The stories found in her work center around the themes of desire, fear and love and Lauren envisions her work existing somewhere between the mythic and the mundane. While at the Bray, she wants to make work that is more generous, more sincere, more open and more ambitious.

The daughter of a spy and a miniature-horse breeder, Lauren Gallaspy grew up in a log cabin in Tennessee with no running water or electricity. After completing her BFA in ceramics at the University of Georgia, Athens, in 2005, she earned her MFA from the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2007.

“My work is about that imbalance: the vulnerability of living things and the sometimes violent, sometimes pleasurable, almost always complex consequences that occur when bodies and objects in the world come into contact with one another.”—Gallaspy

To see more work by Lauren visit her website at laurengallaspy.com.

one need not be a house to be haunted, 2013
porcelain, glaze, underglaze,
gouache, varnish
8" x 11.5" x 6"

thin-skinned, 2015
porcelain, glaze, china paint
25" x 10" x 8"