Lauren Dale is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. She works within western surrealism, drawing on themes of home and motherhood. In 2024 she received her BFA from Metropolitan State University of Denver in painting and sculpture. She is currently based in Castle Rock, Colorado.
Artist Statement:
Early American frontier painters showed cowboys embodying aloneness within divine landscapes. Solitude, when experienced within the myth-ridden frontier, seems as grand as the landscape itself. In contrast, aloneness within the confines of the home is unconsecrated. Home and the American West are both storied with cultural myth and a more stark reality.
By merging these two worlds, the home and the American west, my work contemplates the impossibility of true freedom and autonomy as a mother. Love and freedom are competing forces, which my work blends through western dreamscapes, creating scenes in which home and divine solitude coexist.
