Lauren Steinert – Visual Artist

ARTIST BIO

Lauren C. Steinert received a Master of Fine Art in Printmaking from the University of Arizona. She received her Bachelor of Science and Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Printmaking and Glass-working along with Bachelor degrees in Environmental Science and German. She worked as the Printmaking Technician as well as the Relief Printmaking Instructor for the University of Arizona throughout her time as a graduate student. Steinert is currently the Printmaking Instructor for Pima Community College, a Glassblowing Instructor/Assistant at the Sonoran Glass School, and she works as an Artist Assistant.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“I believe objects hold memory more distinctly than people do. Spending immersive time with different objects around my home, studio, and the communal spaces I occupy, I attempt to visually translate the stories people have left behind by laboriously tracing the overlapping, historic marks built up on the surface of work tables, stools, and tools. By recording these impressions, I am able to document the space’s history. Excavation of nicks, scratches, gouges, and stains reveals events and sequences that have been overlooked and forgotten, evoking the memory of the hundreds of people who have used these surfaces. Through tracing, I uncover the presence others have left behind and consider the accrued time and moments these objects have witnessed. This series of prints originate in the communal printmaking lab at the University of Arizona. The translated marks are presented in order to question notions of what is ephemeral or everlasting.”

Education
2021 Master of Fine Art, Printmaking
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2014/18 BS Art (Glass and Printmaking), Environmental Studies and German
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2016 Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy

Solo Shows
2021 Imprint, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ, USA
2020 Day by Day, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA

Solo Performance
2019 “Written”, Tucson Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
2018 “Grind”, Tucson Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
2017 “Pop Culture”, Art Lofts, Madison, WI, USA
2016 “Vulnerability is Like Rain”, Art Lofts, Madison, WI, USA
2016 “Do You Hear Me Now”, Art Lofts, Performance, Madison WI, USA
2015 “Weighted”, Streets of Florence, Florence, Italy
2015 “Carrying the Future”, Piazza del Limbo, Florence, Italy
2015 “Pathway”, SRISA, Florence Italy

Group Shows
2021 MFA 2021, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA
2021 27th Parkside National Print Exhibition, Parkside, WI, USA
2020 RAW, Montana MFA online exhibition, Montana, USA
2020 Art as Resilience, Resistance, and Respite, Untitled Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA
2020 Print, Printed, Printing, New Mexico Highlands University, NM, USA
2019 Placed, Displaced, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2019 Paper & Clay National Juried Exhibition, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
2019 Interdisciplinary Critique, Graduate Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA
2019 UNKNOWN, Graduate Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA
2018 Regular Style, Montana MFA online exhibition, Montana, USA
2018 On and Off the Wall, Steinfeld Warehouse Community Arts Center, Tucson, AZ, USA
2018 Graduate Critique, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA
2018 Semester One, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA
2018 Varied Edition, Bos Meadery, Madison, WI, USA
2018 Printmaking/Artistic Practice, Bascom Hall, Madison, WI, USA
2017 Deja Vu—Printmaking, Bos Meadery, Madison, WI, USA
2016 Multiplicity— Printmaking, Education Building, Madison, WI, USA
2016 gl@ss, Art Lofts, Madison, WI, USA
2016 The First Edition Printmaking, Red Gym, Madison, WI, USA
2015 Multiples of Glass, Art Lofts, Madison, WI, USA
2015 You May Have Heard of Me, Art In, Madison, WI, USA
2015 STRUT, Madison, WI, USA

Group Performances/Screenings
2020 First Friday, Sonoran Glass School, Tucson, AZ, USA
2019 SIX, Loft Cinema, Tucson, AZ, USA
2018 Gaffer Night, Art Lofts, Madison, WI, USA
2017 Gaffer Gala, Art Lofts, Madison, WI, USA
2016 Frankenstein, Art Lofts, Madison, WI, USA
2015 Twisty Cup Olympics, Art Lofts, Madison, WI, USA

Workshops
2019 Pilchuck Glass School, Investing in the Multiple Kiln and Print, Mixed-Media Course by Hannah Smith and Ruby Dorchester, Stanwood, WA, USA
2018 Ox-Bow, Etching Course by John O’Donnell Ox-Bow, MI, USA
2017 Pilchuck Glass School, Vitreography Course by Hannah Smith, Stanwood, WA, USA

Conference Demonstrations/Panels/Exhibitions
2020 Alternative Relief/Origami Demonstration, P.R.o.M, University of Wyoming, WY, USA
2020 Vitreography Demonstration, Print, Printed, Printing, New Mexico, Highlands University, NM, USA
2019 Rocky Mountain Print Alliance, Placed, Displaced Folio, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Print Folio
2021 Fruit Salad
2020 COVID
2019 Placed, Displaced
2018 Hot Off the Press
2017 Quote Printmaking