Collection: The Weight of the World, Selected By Lauren Frances Evans (online exhibition)

About the exhibition

A ceramic figure balances an ambiguous light green orb on its shoulders. Another fleshy nondescript form vibrates with the colorful markings of its maker atop a sea of vibrant green. Bodies amass, radiating energy, unable to contain the currents of their existence. What is this force? Oozing with life, yet bearing the weight of it. Oh, to be a body in the world.

About the selector

Lauren Frances Evans currently lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama where she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Samford University. She is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, and completed her undergraduate studies at the College of Charleston and received her MFA from the University of Maryland. She has served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa in the School of Art & Art History as well as a Visiting Professor at Grinnell College.

Evans has participated in residencies at Franconia Sculpture Park, Elsewhere Living Museum, and the Vermont Studio Center. She was awarded the International Sculpture Center's 2014 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and was a recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the Iowa Arts Council.

Evans is also the founder and facilitator of the Artist/Parent/Academic Network.

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