Lauren Jade Szabo: As Above, So Below

Solo Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Second Floor Gallery, Novato

Opening Reception July 13, 2-4pm. Exhibition runs July 13 - September 28

Live Performance at the reception in collaboration with dance artist Morgan Olson and vocal artist Rowan Katz

Focusing on our relationships to the environment, “As Above, So Below” revels in the complexity of the ever-changing hybridized seascape, landscape, and skyscape. Szabo explores visual symptoms of perceived separation of humankind and nature through realist paintings and site-specific dance collaborations.

The exhibition leans into a vision of interconnectedness while exploring facets of the exquisite paradox of existence, such as duality and unity in the age of late capitalism. Composed of man-made environments that are in the process of being reclaimed by the elements, her work celebrates ephemeral cycles emphasizing light and color as the divine embodied.

Using juxtapositions of image and text, Lauren’s work utilizes advertising techniques that reference popular culture recontextualized with environmental motives at the thematic intersection of painting, propaganda, and the American West. She believes in reflecting on our environmental relations to learn about ourselves and widen our capacities for empathy.

Film projects screened in collaboration with Lauren Godla, Kara Starkweather, Héctor Jaime, Brandon Graham, Bryan and Vita Hewitt.