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Lauren Weinstein: Art And Life
Lauren Weinstein: Art And Life
Lauren Weinstein
Art And Life
“It wasn’t until I became a mom that I found real meaning in my career. Suddenly I had this subject matter in front of me, my own children growing and changing that felt like it transcended my own reality.”
“When I first had Ramona I felt like trying to balance my artistic life was very traumatizing and it threw down the gauntlet of whether or not I could really still function as an artist.”
“The only way to move forward was to embrace life’s messiness and break down the barriers between life and art.”
“All this work about my kids culminated in a piece I did during the pandemic about my eldest daughter, Ramona, getting sick. It was right at the beginning of the pandemic and she had serious pneumonia and had to be hospitalized.”
“And this all felt like recording history, this new world that was happening to us, shutting us in all day. This was the only way I could get through, to record our year and a half indoors.”
“I would bring my watercolors upstairs and draw and paint them. I tried to show everything, when times were good and bad.”
“And yet this page where I say ‘How can you shield your child from suffering’ is one of the greatest conundrums of parenting. You see your child get older and realize how messed up the world is…Seeing her grow and change right before my eyes…Really, Ramona was so isolated during that time and it was hard to document. It went beyond words.”
“It was so comforting and cathartic that if you treated everything in your life like art it would become more meaningful and compelling, even if you weren’t actually making art.“
“Art and life, it’s all the same thing.”
Lauren Weinstein
Portrait Of The Artist Without Childcare, 2021
Colored Pencil on Paper
7 1/4h x 5 1/4w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 10 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 3 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 1 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 8 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 7 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 15 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 14 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 5 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 6 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 11 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Mother-In-Place (page 12 of 15), 2020
Pencil and Watercolor on Paper with collaged words
11h x 8 1/2w in
Lauren Weinstein
Self Portrait With Grandma Shirley’s Sweater, 2021
Colored Pencil on Paper
7 1/4h x 5 1/4w in
Lauren Weinstein
The World's Greatest Knower, 2021
Colored Pencil on Paper
7 1/4h x 5 1/4w in
Lauren Weinstein
Ramona Holding Sylvia, 2018
Colored Pencil, Watercolor, and Ink on Paper
10h x 7w in
Lauren Weinstein
Creator And Destroyer, 2018/ 2022
Colored Pencil, Watercolor, and Ink on Paper
10h x 14w in