Lauren Brunk's photostream

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Bio



Lauren Brunk is native to Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, an aspiring artist, encouraged Brunk to develop creativity and helped to strengthen her artistic pursuits. While attending the University of Kansas, Brunk found her niche in sculpture and graduated in 2007 with a BFA in Sculpture and a minor in Art History. Upon graduation, Brunk returned to Kansas City and revisited to her artistic roots—illustration—with renewed fervor. She is currently studying the relationship between words and reality, actuality and distortion.



Artist Statement



As an artist, I have always been interested in the way images and color can reveal hidden truths in reality. A prevalent theme in my recent collection of drawings is latency—the veiled meanings behind reality and the way everything seems to exist with potential. Nature itself is a great example of this, a beautiful web of organized chaos where that which seems straight and fixed is really complicated and diverse. I am interested in the breaking point where delicacy and elaboration almost become gaudy, and am constantly trying to break this point down to reveal beautiful truths through patterns and imagery. In this collection, I have unearthed a means through which I investigate and question theories and memories; the answers are visual gems. I am never afraid to poke fun at myself and my personal fears, yet I am always paying homage to the things in life I hold dear. I consider art a form of experimentation, a sort of self-imposed logic problem. It is a song and dance choreographed with timing of color, the beats of texture, and the melody of form.