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Lauren Marie Brank

Lauren Brank is a visual artist from Houston, TX. Her primary interest is in creating expressive, gestural paintings with acrylic and thread, and she also enjoys photography, ceramics, and collage. Outside of her creative practice, she's a sign language interpreter, wife and mom to an awesome kid, dogs, chickens, and a cat.

I once created realistic portraits in colored pencil and expressive, colorful portraits in acrylic. After a long hiatus, I returned to art with new intentions. My work has since transformed to primarily creating gestural, textured paintings with acrylic and thread, but I also enjoy photography, ceramics, and collage. My practice references both of my grandmothers — one who paints, and one who sews — with introspection and abstraction in the process. Their joy in creating their own work and getting to explore color provided me with a spark to keep going when I struggled to have pride in my own.When working with paint, its diverse dilutions, transparencies, viscosities and often unruly movement, I explore the push-pull of control and letting go. Learning to focus on the process, while honoring the product, has been a healing journey for me to work through intense self-doubt and learn to trust my intuition.

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