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<\/a><\/p>\nLauren Kalman is a visual artist based in Detroit, whose practice is rooted in contemporary craft, sculpture, video, photography and performance. Her work investigates constructions of the ideal, the politics of craft, and the built environment through performances using her body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Raised in the Midwest, Kalman completed her MFA in Art and Technology from the Ohio State University and earned a BFA with a focus in Metals from Massachusetts College of Art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Cranbrook Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Mint Museum, World Art Museum in Beijing, and the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Fran\u00e7oise van den Bosch Foundation at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, and the Korean Ceramics Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n In But if the Crime is Beautiful…<\/i>\u00a0Kalman uses assertive performances of the female body with decorative elements like metal, beading, and garments, combined with iconic Modernist Furniture. But if the Crime is Beautiful…<\/i>\u00a0responds to the legacy of the architect Adolf Loos\u2019 1910 lecture\u00a0Ornament and Crime. <\/i>In Ornament and Crime<\/i>, Loos proposes that ornament is regressive and primitive, and that in his contemporary society, only degenerates and criminals are decorated. Women\u2019s dress was included in this critique. Loos\u2019 writings influenced principals of the Modernist movement, a lineage that still has great impact on art and design today. Kalman\u2019s work uses jewelry, craft mediums, and decorative objects as a strategic choice; and in contrast, also uses whiteness and simplicity and a calculated choice. Sterile objects and empty space in the work reference the link between minimalism, masculinism, and ideas of intellectual purity. These links were codified aesthetically throughout the Modernist period.<\/p>\n Craft in recent thinking, has been conceptualized as a medium that has remained vital outside of the contemporary art world. The legacy of modernism, minimalism, and the high arts (sculpture and painting) have historically privileged the cerebral over the corporeal. Crafts, in contrast, have long been associated with the domestic, collective, and the female. In this work the female body and decoration are inserted into and upon iconic Modern furniture objects.<\/p>\n On View: October 27 – December 10, 2021 Lauren Kalman is a visual artist based in Detroit, whose practice is rooted in contemporary craft, sculpture, video, photography and performance. Her work investigates constructions of the ideal, the politics of craft, and the built environment through performances using her body.\u00a0 Raised in the Midwest, Kalman completed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4970,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[16,7],"jetpack-portfolio-type":[8],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[10,6],"class_list":["post-344","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-archive","tag-fall-2021-featured-artists","jetpack-portfolio-type-fall-2021-featured-artists","jetpack-portfolio-tag-archive","jetpack-portfolio-tag-fall-2021-featured-artists"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/344\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-type?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/art-oresman-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-tag?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Artist Statement<\/h3>\n
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