Artblog | Lauren Whearty

posts by Lauren Whearty

Lauren Whearty is a painter, educator, and curator living and working in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA from The Ohio State University, and her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and has been a Co- Director at Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and non-profit in Brooklyn, NY since 2017. Lauren currently teaches at The University of the Arts and Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia.

October 23, 2023 by Lauren Whearty

An interview with Marilyn Holsing on the power of narrative and landscape

September 19, 2023 by Lauren Whearty

Talking with FJORD on their ten year anniversary

Lauren Whearty interviews members of the artist run space, Fjord, now celebrating their 10th year in operation. Members have changed through the years and so have their rented gallery space — in separate locations in the Kensington/Frenkford area.

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March 24, 2023 by Lauren Whearty

Molly Burt-Westvig on ‘the reveal’ in her multi-media paintings

Lauren Whearty interviews Temple University graduate student Teaching Assistant Molly Burt-Westvig to discuss her abstract paintings and works on paper, which merge digital and real materials and are enhanced with surprising additions like chalk, steel, ground glass and LED’s.

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December 12, 2022 by Lauren Whearty

Eleanor Conover, elusive abstractions with bold materiality, in ‘Side Angle Tide’ at List Gallery, Swarthmore

Our new contributor Lauren Whearty writes that Eleanor Conover’s paintings are body-referencing in size, and the abstractions on shaped canvases, while slippery in meaning, have rich and dense materiality including in some cases a saw blade and wooden blocks.

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