Bio

Lauren Kasmer is a multi-disciplinary artist working within a range of media and modalities. Her realizations are usually presented as an installation. These installations center around non-narrative videos with original sound compositions. They are supplemented with photographs applied to a variety of materials, and often enhanced by live events. The artist’s activations can be personal, social and or public participatory engagements.

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.

Kasmer manifests through an accumulation and layering of inquiries to create anew, a method to reimagine and rework pieces from past collections so that the work continuously travels back and forth through time. The rejection of anchoring her art to a specific time period holds a great deal of respect for origins yet represents the ongoing nature of creation, which is to fluidly and continuously evolve.

Momenta, a solo show with live-streaming performances, was presented online by El Camino College Art Gallery during the pandemic years. She is also known for her curatorial practice for traditional and alternative spaces. Open Windows was a series of art in storefront windows created by Kasmer for the Los Angeles Fringe Festival. The Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS) exhibition during the Getty funded Pacific Standard Time was originated by her.