Doodle and Dream
curated by Lauren Kasmer and Michael L. Miller

El Camino College Art Gallery
16007 Crenshaw Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90506

August 26 - October 3, 2024


PAMELA BURGESS
SERGE ATTUKWEI CLOTTEY
SHANA NYS DAMBROT & OSCEOLA REFETOFF
RIC HEITZMAN
BONITA HELMER
LINDA JACOBSON
BRUCE KASMER
LAUREN KASMER
WILLIAM LEMON
RODNIE NELSON
JOANNA SKUMANICH
ESTHER PEARL WATSON
LYNDA WEINMAN
JODY ZELLEN

Opening Reception:
Thursday, September 5, 6-8:30 pm

Artists' Conversations and Curators Walkthrough
Tuesday, September 17, 1:15-3:30 pm

Papier-Mâché with Joanna Skumanich:
Saturday, September 21, 1:00-4:00 pm

Dream Workshop with Linda Jacobson:
Thursday, September 26, 1:15-3:30 pm

Zoom Meet a 3-D artist with Lynda Weinman:
Tuesday, October 1, 1:15-3:30 pm

Closing Party:
Saturday, September 28, 4-7 pm


Doodle and Dream is an exhibition, where the artists access and reflect the subconscious, meditative and sometimes non-conscious state of mind, in their creations. I have always marveled at a story of Salvador Dali, who took exceedingly short naps to be inspired by and captured the visions of that space between sleep and pure consciousness - the hypnagogic state - that inspired his imagery. My co-curator, Michael Miller, and I selected artists for Doodle and Dream, who are quite varied but all share their creative expressions that celebrate the transitional state of minds.

April 14 - June 14, 2024

The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at Hillel at UCLA
574 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024

*All proceeds from sales of the donated art by participating artists go to Hadassah Hospital in Israel.


Sunday, April 14
2-4pm
Opening Reception



The Cilka series of photographs are part of a project which reinterprets an archive of Kasmer's photographically printed wearables. During the last ten years, her images taken in nature have been applied to textiles and then transformed into wearable art and furnishings. These are independent fine art objects that often act as an element within her works. The standalone photographs as well as crafted art pieces also embody personal upcycling that pay homage to and honors the memory of her holocaust survivor designer mother.

April 15- June 17, 2023

Angels Gate Cultural Center Main Gallery
3601 S Gaffey St. San Pedro, CA 90731

*Notion of Place is an art installation by Lauren kasmer and
a title of the group show curated by Lauren Kasmer.
Featuring following artists:
Hilary Baker, Joyce Dallal, Flora Kao, Natalie M. Godinez,
Kio Griffith, Lauren Kasmer, LaRissa Rogers, Jenny Yurshansky,
HK Zamani



Saturday, April 15
3–5pm
Opening Reception (upper Galleries)

Saturday, April 29
11-1pm
Notion of Place Activation (there will be cake)
*Monthira Soonthorsarathool and EI will be on hand to help with the toothbrush rug technique demo and Hali Klonel will serve birthday cake.

Saturday, May 13
11am–1pm
Related Live Event, Homesĭtē Culinary Performances*
1:30pm-2:30pm
Notion of Place Activation (act2)

Saturday, June 3
7pm-8pm
Notion of Place Activation (accompanying SoundPedro)

Saturday, June 17
2:00pm–4pm
Closing Day Reception/ Artists Talk


Notions of Place will examine what it means to inhabit a complexity of different spaces that may be physical realities or
imagined environments. They proffer metaphors of exchange between nature and human action, drawing on dreams,
memories, and the spaces in between, disintegrating commonly held social views that have acted as fences around our
homes. The artists will be responsive to the diverse community that makes up San Pedro, while also keeping in mind the
importance that it is home to the largest port of international traffic in the US. Filtered through social, cultural, and geopolitical
frames, the artists explore relationships and systems of the urban, suburban, exurban, and rural landscape. Their
responses will ultimately transcend the singular city to reflect what one might call the Covid pandemic migration as well. As a
whole society shifts its notion of home, so its idea of place transforms too.
Each of the artists in the exhibition articulate different facets of what we call place. In it one can feel safe: a home, or a
country can be a refuge holding our values and dreams in safe harbor. Or it can be defined by a border or a wall holding
us back from a new life. In ways that are both spiritual and physical, Notions of Place explores the contours of the artist’s
experience of the world.

Momenta book launch event was held at Bergamot Station, on May 22, 2022.

This event was a celebration of Lauren Kasmer's Archival catalogue.

In-person event was held on December 11-12, 2021 in Santa Monica.
Kasmer’s archive of photographically printed wearables are to be sold at a PWYW (pay what you wish) pricing event.
All proceeds went to the California Fire Foundation.

New dates and locations TBD...

Lauren Kasmer’s Momenta is an online solo exhibition presented by El Camino College Art Gallery and curated by Susanna Meiers, from January 4, 2021 - May 17, 2021. It is comprised of Mount, a video; Wardrobe, photographically printed wearables; Equipoise, an installation with activation; Collaboration at a Distance, photography; and Flourish from Fire, documentary images of the Blind Courier exhibition installation project.

Archived streaming events and the current online solo show is
here.

Blind Courier Exhibition at the Brand Library & Art Center

Curators Hilary Baker and Lauren Kasmer originally conceived of Blind Courier as an homage to Los Angeles. Expanding on this idea, they selected artists whose work casts a wider net beyond the boundaries of our city. In this exhibition nine artists bring to the Brand gallery their relationship to a place, their perspectives filtered through memory, imagination, and research. The artists represented offer a compelling mix of work by documenting, re-defining and re-envisioning dwellings, neighborhoods, and landmarks.

Featuring Artists:

Robert Aull
Hilary Baker
Lauren Kasmer
Sharon Levy
Diane Meyer
Minoru Ohira
Osceola Refetoff
Samual Scharf
Andrew West

Homesite Recipe Exchange
Coinciding with Blind Courier exhibition
Homesite is a multifaceted interdisciplinary art installation with public participation created by artists Joyce Dallal and Lauren Kasmer.
Blind Courier and Homesite Recipe Exchange

Exhibition continues through August 23, 2019
Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday-Sunday: 10am-5pm

Brand Library & Art Center
1601 W Mountain St.
Glendale, CA 91201

In the Gallery:
Blind Courier exhibition
Curated By Hilary Baker & Lauren Kasmer

In the Atrium
The Homesite Recipe Exchange
A public participatory installation
By Joyce Dallal & Lauren Kasmer

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Zeitgeist Architectonia at the Event Horizon opens Sept. 4

A group show where I will be presenting an installation called Fluorescence in the project room featuring a new video titled UV Blue.

Exhibition runs through October 16

McNish Gallery - Oxnard College Art
4000 South Rose Avenue
Oxnard, California 93033

Blind Courier Exhibition at the Brand Library & Art Center

Exhibition continues through August 23, 2019
Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday-Sunday: 10am-5pm
In the Gallery:
Blind Courier exhibition
Curated By Hilary Baker & Lauren Kasmer

Homesite Recipe Exchange
Presents Food & Art in the Park
at the Brand Park and Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale

A day long gathering on Sunday, August 11, 2019,11 am - 4 pm, a Community Picnic with Food Trucks, Culinary Performances, Kids Crafts, Plein Air Painting and the Homesite Recipe Exchange public participatory engagements installed in the Atrium.

The days events culminate with the Blind Courier exhibition artist walk through led by Shana Nys Dambrot, the well-known Los Angeles art critic and Arts & Culture Editor, for the LA Weekly, 2 - 4pm

Blind Courier Exhibition at the Brand Library & Art Center

Curators Hilary Baker and Lauren Kasmer originally conceived of Blind Courier as an homage to Los Angeles. Expanding on this idea, they selected artists whose work casts a wider net beyond the boundaries of our city. In this exhibition nine artists bring to the Brand gallery their relationship to a place, their perspectives filtered through memory, imagination, and research. The artists represented offer a compelling mix of work by documenting, re-defining and re-envisioning dwellings, neighborhoods, and landmarks.

Featuring Artists:

Robert Aull
Hilary Baker
Lauren Kasmer
Sharon Levy
Diane Meyer
Minoru Ohira
Osceola Refetoff
Samual Scharf
Andrew West

Homesite Recipe Exchange
Coinciding with Blind Courier exhibition
Homesite is a multifaceted interdisciplinary art installation with public participation created by artists Joyce Dallal and Lauren Kasmer.
Blind Courier and Homesite Recipe Exchange

Exhibition continues through August 23, 2019
Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday-Sunday: 10am-5pm

Brand Library & Art Center
1601 W Mountain St.
Glendale, CA 91201

In the Gallery:
Blind Courier exhibition
Curated By Hilary Baker & Lauren Kasmer

In the Atrium
The Homesite Recipe Exchange
A public participatory installation
By Joyce Dallal & Lauren Kasmer

Additional Events

August 11, 2019
Food and Art in the Park
Homesite Recipe Exchange will host food and art in the park
11am - 2 pm
and
Blind Courier artist walkthrough moderated by Shana Nys Dambrot
2pm - 4pm

Find out more about this project on
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Group Exhibition
Art Share-LA

"What does the future of Los Angeles arts landscape look like through the eyes of some of its most respected artists? We ask some of our favorites to choose the promising artist they would most like to exhibit with. The results are a vibrant, diverse cross section of this region’s creative output–spanning across painting, video, textile, photography, drawing, mixed media collage, and more." - Art Share-LA

Opening: Saturday, February 2, 6-10 pm
February 2 - March 3

Art Share-LA
801 E 4th Pl, Los Angeles, California 90013
(213) 687-4278

Image, Glyph, 2018, dye sublimation print on fabric, 53 x 70 inches

Re:Creation
December 1, 2018 - January 5, 2019

Merge, a collaborative installation with Bonita Helmer in the project space

Above image, Min, 2018, Dye sublimation photograph on aluminum

Re:Creation

In The Beginning group exhibition at El Camino College Art Gallery

August 27-September 20, 2018

Reception September 6, 7-9 PM

Gallery Talk September 11, 1 PM

As curious human beings, we cannot help but ponder the question of how we come to be here. So while there are many traditions and beliefs that can separate us as humans, I prefer to look at where we share a commonality in our biology.

Re:Creation is a mixed media with video installation which focuses on a relationship to nature and refers to my own meditative practice while acknowledging a deep respect for physics as well as metaphysical tenets. - Lauren Kasmer

Carbon Allotropes: Visceral & Ethereal, an Artist's Response
exhibition at the Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA)
Closing Reception
Sunday July 15, 2018
5 - 8pm

Featuring Work by: Terry Arena, Joaquin Boz, James Griffith, Bonita Helmer, Lauren Kasmer, Brad Miller, Jenene Nagy, Chris Oatey, Brian Rochefort, Tam Van Tran

“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” -- Albert Einstein

Check out the review on Art and Cake

"Carbon is a lush and lovely show that takes viewers into the colors, shapes, and images that represent the material itself, and the wonder for which it is responsible." -- Genie Davis

FOCA
Fellow of Contemporary Art
970 N Broadway, Ste 208
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Monday - Friday, 10 am- 4 pm
Exhibition ends July 20, 2018

An exhibition catalog is available for purchase with essay by art critic Shana Nys Dambrot, designed by Patricia Moritz and published by Lauren Kasmer.
For more information go to the website Carbon Art Exhibit

Please note event is RSVP only

RSVP Link

Lauren Kasmer
Adjunct Apartment
Pop Ups 2017

inspired bites
curated collectables

December 1
December 3
December 10


artworks on view
including the short film Firebird: The Rise of Beauty
which made a theatrical premiere at IFS Film Festival

View preview here:
Firebird

I'm pleased to announce that my piece Dis is featured in Los Angeles Art Association's Annual Benefit Auction. Please click here to view and bid on my piece and to support the Los Angeles Art Association.

Hope to see you there,
Lauren

Please join us at 2017 Los Angeles Art Association's
Annual Benefit Auction on July 29, 2017.

This auction serves as an important survey exhibition and auction opportunity featuring one of the most compelling pools of emerging talent, as well as pieces by established artists including Joan Miro, Alexander Calder, Shepard Fairey and Frank Gehry.

All artwork are now available for bidding on Paddle8.

All proceeds benefit LAAA and the Los Angeles' emerging artist community.

IFS Film Festival 2017
presents
Firebird

3:00pm May 3rd 2017
Pacific Theaters at The Grove


Told in a non-narrative form, Firebird tells the story of a peasant girl who by refusing to give up her what she values most, sacrifices herself and leaves behind beauty for all who desire it's presence in their lives.


TICKETS :

www.ifsfilm.com/2017/may03.php#firebird

Firebird - New work and installation

Myth and Image Exhibition
El Camino College Art Gallery
Exhibition dates:
August 28 - September 18, 2014
Opening September 4
Special event with the artist:
Tuesday lunchtime, September 9