Lauren Clay's sculptures and installations evoke the ethereal architecture of dreams, transforming the intangible imagery of the personal and collective unconscious into ornate, visceral realities. Through low-relief architectural carvings and hand-painted marble surfaces, her wall-based sculptures compress and distort space. Stairs, doorways, windows, and energetic pathways intertwine—passageways that beckon yet remain elusive. At this hypnagogic gateway, viewers are invited into the indeterminate theater of the dream world.

   
Lauren Clay holds a BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. Clay, originally from Atlanta, Georgia, currently lives and works in New York City. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Picture Theory, New York; Bosse & Baum, London; The Roswell Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico; and Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas. She has created site-specific installations for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; Walter Elwood Museum, Amsterdam, New York; and the Hermes flagship store in Singapore. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Sculpture Magazine, Bomb Magazine, and Hi-Fructose Magazine. Clay was a 2019 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a 2020 recipient of a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2022 she was a grant recipient and resident at the Roswell Artists in Residence program in Roswell, New Mexico. Clay’s editioned artist book, Subtle Body, 2016, published by Small Editions NY, is included in the library collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center.