ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lauren Frances Adams is a North Carolina born, Baltimore-based visual artist. Her artworks have been exhibited across the United States at museums, galleries, and artist-run spaces, with recent projects at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. This exhibition at Anchorlight marks 4 years since her last exhibition in North Carolina, held at the Center for the Study of the American South in Chapel Hill. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and has held residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, La Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, France, and Sacatar Foundation in Bahia, Brazil.  She is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and the Trawick Prize. Adams’ research explores political and social histories through iconic images and domestic ornament. Her work is rooted in her experiences growing up on a rural farm and inspired by the need for reckoning with the past in order to understand the present.