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Posted on May 16, 2020

Sequin Fix
Lauren Ceike
June 2 – August 30, 2020
candle for birthday
© Lauren Ceike, Used Birthday Candles
nails in a bag
© Lauren Ceike, Paneling Nails
bag o beads
© Lauren Ceike, Pink Iridescent Beads

sequins in a bag
© Lauren Ceike, Silver Sequins
confetti in a bag
© Lauren Ceike, Confetti from my 34th Birthday
small dolls
© Lauren Ceike, Tiny “Ladies of the Night”

Lauren text
© Lauren Ceike, Lauren Confetti
hair
© Lauren Ceike, Lock of Hair
bag of sand
© Lauren Ceike, Sand from Afghanistan

little skulls
© Lauren Ceike, Rabbit & Bird Skulls
single frame
© Lauren Ceike
four frames
© Lauren Ceike

close up of bag contents
© Lauren Ceike, detail 15-33
close up of bags
© Lauren Ceike, detail 189-207
close up of bags
detail 240-254, © Lauren Ceike

Statement
I never knew that drug bags were drug bags.

I see them on the ground everywhere I go: nice neighborhoods, “bad” neighborhoods, big cities, and family-friendly parks in small towns. I always thought they were for craft supplies, hardware, buttons, etc. I didn’t question their purpose, I knew exactly what they were, until it hit me one day. I suppose my naiveté should be embarrassing, but I think it’s endearing.

My family has been haunted by drug abuse for more than half my life. In some ways my adolescence was robbed from me. Memories I thought didn’t exist suddenly came to me when I discovered the truth of these bags; I now recall a bag floating in my family’s pool, at the time I figured it was for nuts & bolts. Most of the items I put in these bags are things I have saved from childhood, I often tried to limit use of things special to me as a way to preserve them. Even as a kid I felt nostalgia for being a kid; maybe I somehow knew innocence wasn’t as easy to hang on to as I hoped.

The bags in this collection were predominately acquired from the streets in the city where I live, Providence, Rhode Island. There are a few from exciting places like NYC and Miami, and, unsurprising to me, from my small hometown of Townsend, Massachusetts. – LC

Bio
Creating artwork for me is deeply personal and perhaps selfish. It is therapy, a compulsion to create something as a way to express a feeling. Often and regrettably my work is never seen by others, but it has performed its purpose and I feel satisfied. I want it to be appealing to other people, of course, but I’m not always sure if it is. In this way I feel like a true artist: I process emotions and experiences through art. While my formal education is in photography, I enjoy using any medium that I feel best helps me reach a destination, including performance, which can be difficult for a person like me who considers herself shy. One of my personal artistic philosophies is to make creations that little kids would have fun looking at. I am attracted to bright colors, kitsch, and silliness, and I’m happy for my viewers to enjoy those things on a surface level, yet with a closer look there is more to be revealed. My work is typically variations on the themes of family and nostalgia, and may suggest sadness, though I like to think of it more as heavy-hearted. I often have the sense of missing someone or something, even in the presence of those things.

I received a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2004. I currently reside in Providence, RI where I work a day job as a devoted animal caregiver. – LC

CV

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2020 Sequin Fix, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA (Upcoming)

2018 Time’s Winged Chariot AS220 Main Gallery, Providence RI

2018 Blowing Bubbles at Dogs Julian’s Gallery, Providence RI

2017 Sequin Fix Ugly Duck Gallery, Rochester NY

2017 Common Lint/Sequin Fix participatory project CVPA Gallery UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford MA

2016 Time’s Winged Chariot Meeting Hall Gallery, Townsend MA

2014 Chippers exhibition, publication, and performance Mmuseum, New York NY

2010 Heavy Heart The Hive Gallery, Providence RI

2008 Heavy Heart Lawrence Gallery, Pepperell MA

Group Exhibitions
2019 Juror’s Prize, members exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA

2018 Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops Diversity contest, Santa Fe NM

2018 Griffin Museum of Photography juried members exhibition, Winchester MA

2018 Portraying Pets and People 311 Gallery, Raleigh NC

2017 Winter Solstice Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA

2017 Griffin Museum of Photography juried members exhibition, Winchester MA

2017 Inner Space & Outer Limits juried exhibition CVPA Gallery UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford MA

2016 Griffin Museum of Photography juried members exhibition, Winchester MA

2016 Earth Matters Meeting Hall Gallery, Townsend MA

View Lauren Ceike’s website.

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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