Artist Lauren Henkin’s New Show Is an Ode to Zaha Hadid’s First U.S. Building
BY LIDDY BERMAN
"Prop 4, cunningly built into the women’s restroom on the museum’s second story, is a minimalist sketch in PVC pipes, its abstract grid form inviting the eye to find beauty in industry."
Meet the artist disrupting Zaha Hadid’s Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati
BY JULIE BAUMGARDNER
"Lauren Henkin’s series of sculptural interventions in unexpected spaces is giving the late architect’s first US building a new slant."
An Artist Re-thinks Museum Architecture’s Impact
BY OSMAN CAN YEREBAKAN
"...Henkin attempts to celebrate and shake the structure’s complexities through the heft of sculpture and subtlety of art. And in doing so, she engages her audience in an act of architectural interaction: 'Activating these spaces beyond their intentions gave me an opportunity,' she says, 'to challenge myself as an architecture-trained artist at a museum with incredibly persuasive architecture.'"
Props breathes new life into Zaha Hadid's Contemporary Arts Center
BY JOHN STOUGHTON
"The pieces dissolve into walls, hug corners, and playfully grow out from the floor. In this regard, the Props do not come off as menacing or insulting in any way. Instead, they feel like discreet, optimistically friendly characters, producing compelling moments of their own that stop us in our tracks."
Props exhibit fills stairwells and bathrooms of Zaha Hadid's Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati
BY PAUL JEBARA
"'We contemplated how her provisional sculptural interventions could activate in the CAC's Zaha Hadid building, which was designed to disorient audiences and open them up to revised forms of navigation through museum space' Matijcio told Dezeen."
lauren henkin creates eight ‘props’ to spark dialogue with zaha hadid design elements
by bryan shim
“Using a distinct set of mundane industrial building supplies such as PVC pipes, wires and even some excess supplies from the building’s utility closets, the artist intentionally designed the artworks with raw aesthetics to spark a dialogue with the seamless architecture of the museum.”
The sculptures of Lauren Henkin reimagines the architectural space with 'Props'
by Dilpreet Bhullar
“Playing with the same material, Henkin’s sculptural interventions defy the geometry of the architecture and open the hidden rawness of the material with her works.”
"Second Nature": A Q&A with Lauren Henkin
by taylor dafoe
"Printed at a scale relative to the human body and cropped to abstract the figure, the fake flowers are imbued with a human quality. From a distance, they look like garden variety home décor; up close, it’s easy to see just how cheap they are." —Taylor Dafoe
review: lauren Henkin, The Park @Foley
by loring knoblauch
"This is an artist who isn’t afraid to revel in the tactile lusciousness of a terrific print, and her attention to texture, surface, and tonal gradation is a welcome antidote to the churned out digital dreck we are becoming increasingly accustomed to seeing."
New Perspective on Old Tradition
by nick brown
"Looking at these images, we ask, ‘What are the things that look like they’re changing, what are the things that feel like they’re not changing, and what are maybe some of the things we don’t want to change?’" — Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Birmingham Museum of Art Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
WBHM NPR Radio Interview With Lauren Henkin
by andrew yeager
"What I was trying to avoid were some of the more stereotypical images of social and economic divide that you see a lot coming from the rural South and really just trying to explore what I found and to leave some ambiguity in the photographs so that the viewers could impart their own narrative." — Lauren Henkin
Photos: Uncensored Moments in Central Park
By Christopher Bonanos
"...Lauren Henkin—in a series of up-close shots— has begun to collect parkgoers in those strikingly loose moments, where they've shed shoes, dozed off, or stripped half-naked. She plays with space and scale, playing up big trees and giant buildings against intimate human moments."
Galleries: ‘Objects of Desire,’ ‘A Question in Printmaking,’ ‘Temperament/Monolith’
by mark jenkins
"The stark color photographs in “Growth,” at the Gallery at Vivid Solutions, might seem to celebrate the indomitability of nature. Lauren Henkin depicts trees and vines that wrap around industrial structures or insert themselves into absurdly small spaces between metal-clad buildings. Nature’s unruly vitality can be threatening, however, as Henkin shows with smaller, black and white images of internal growths."
Lauren Henkin "The Park" at Foley Gallery
by amanda everich
"Lauren Henkin reminds us that nature is just as much a part of the city as the buildings and busy haze are with The Park, her latest exhibition at Foley Gallery. ...Henkin’s photographs show the connection people have to the park when they give in to its wonder and force."
Eye-opening views, embedded in the landscape
by norman borden
"As shows go, “The Park” is eye-opening. Henkin shows us a Central Park that we may have seen before but really didn’t notice. The majestic scale, the rocks and the rock climbers, the boaters and the sunbathers, the hidden beauty — the great escape available to all of us."
The Best D.C. Photography Exhibits of 2013
by louis jacobson
"On their own, the crisp, vacant, urban-landscape images by Lauren Henkin would be intriguing enough—spindly tendrils climbing up a warehouse façade that suggests a color-field painting, or a tree that curves gracefully skyward from behind a mess of Dumpsters and recycling bins. But Henkin’s meditation on invasiveness asks how we choose whether to extinguish an outsider or let it be..."
INTERVIEW: Richard Benari & Lauren Henkin
by josh franco
"We’re interested in abstraction because it intensifies the physicality of what’s photographed; disorientation is a by-product. A real useful one, but still a by-product. The Oregon landscapes, which say so much about abstraction in the found and the everyday, convey the sheer physicality of place--without reference to location and without documentary comment."
review: ‘growth’ by lauren henkin
by bridget coaker
"Combining medical scans of her stomach, with colour landscape photographs of nature overgrowing man made structures and traditional portraits of plants [in this case parasitical ones] Lauren asks important questions about our often unquestioning worship of all things green and suggests that while usually benign, nature can also be invasive and destroy the host upon which it depends. ... "Growth" is an intelligent and complex response to our ambiguous relationship with nature; something we seek to control through our gardening, and forestry skills, yet still have a romantic attachment to the wildness of its seas and rugged untamed landscapes."
kboo Radio Interview With Lauren Henkin
by wendy webb
"Wendy Webb interviews photographer Lauren Henkin about her new book, "Displaced." Lauren's work explores loss and renewal through experimenting with light and landscape in locations such as Nova Scotia."
Review: Lauren Henkin at Camerawork Gallery
by david row
"...these black-and-white photos stir with a contemplativeness and emotional directness that carry the frisson of discovery. We're witnessing the development -- pun intended -- of a peculiar, worthy talent. ... In Henkin's images, you feel the photographer's immersion in a specific world, its details and rituals and dankly exquisite weave."
