SHELBURNE, Vt. (August 16, 2024)— Join us for a lecture presented by artist Lauren Fensterstock on Tuesday, August 27 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Shelburne Museum, in conjunction with the current exhibition New England Now: Strange States.

Artist Lauren Fensterstock will discuss her elaborate sculptures and installations, which explore the evolving history of our relationship to nature through the merging of environmental and metaphysical landscapes. During these tumultuous times, Fensterstock turns her creative eye to the skies for wisdom, where moody storms, ominous comets, and dying stars have long been screens onto which humans have projected our anxiety, hopes, and fears.

During the lecture, Fensterstock will also consider how her embrace of materials and techniques historically associated with “ladies’ work”—including mosaics, shellwork, and papercutting—emphasizes the capacity of crafts traditionally associated with women to provoke reflection on the complexities of the world beyond the domestic sphere. 

The lecture will be approximately 45 minutes, followed by an audience Q&A. Free to museum members and with museum admission.

The exhibition New England Now: Strange States, which features examples of Lauren Fensterstock’s work, will remain open until 7 p.m. The exhibition is on view through October 20.

For more information, please visit www.shelburnemuseum.org.

 

Photo Caption:
Sculptures Portal and Scrying 3 by Lauren Fensterstock on view in the exhibition New England Now: Strange States. Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York.

Artwork credits:
Lauren Fensterstock, Portal, 2018. Shells, glass, aluminum, and mixed media. Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York.
Lauren Fensterstock, Scrying 3, 2017. Shells, resin, sand cast, mouth blown glass, and paint. Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York.

Hi-resolution image available HERE.

 

About Shelburne Museum
Founded in 1947 by trailblazing folk art collector Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, is the largest art and history museum in northern New England and Vermont’s foremost public resource for visual art and material culture. The Museum’s 45-acre campus is comprised of 39 buildings including the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education and Webb Gallery featuring important American paintings by Andrew Wyeth, Winslow Homer, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses, John Singleton Copley and many more. For more information, please visit shelburnemuseum.org.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

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