December 14 – March 2, 2025
At the John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, WI
Featuring work by Lauren Mabry
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
FEATURED WORKS BY LAUREN MABRY
As part of the Arts Center’s celebration of Arts/Industry’s fiftieth anniversary, the twelve artists in residence at the Kohler Co. factory during 2024 will exhibit their work in a yearlong group exhibition, Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents.
Since 1974, over five hundred artists have participated in the Arts Center’s Arts/Industry residency. The program, operated in collaboration with Kohler Co., offers artists the time and space to focus on the creation of new work in the company’s pottery and foundry studios, encouraging experimental art making on the factory floor and engagement with Kohler Co. associates.
The exhibition will present four residents’ work at a time, in rotations of approximately four months each. Connections between the artists and their work will surface as the exhibition evolves, similar to the experience of a residency. Artists will show a range of work—some previously created, some newly commissioned for the exhibition, and some made during their residency.
Artists featured in the exhibition include first-time residents Shae Bishop, Justin Favela, Cathy Hsiao, Sahar Khoury, Lauren Mabry, and Ger Xiong/Ntxawg Xyooj. Returning Arts/Industry alumni artists Sharif Bey, Mary Anne Kluth, Harold Mendez, Martha Poggioli, Lee Emma Running, and Edra Soto will also present work in the exhibition.
ABOUT LAUREN MABRY
American, b. 1985, Cincinnati, OH
lives and works in Philadelphia, PA
Lauren Mabry is recognized internationally for her bold, dynamic glazes and inventive use of material, color, and form. Her ceramic vessels, objects, and dimensional paintings embrace experimentation as a way to question the boundary between abstract painting, minimalist sculpture, and process art.
Mabry is the recipient of individual grants from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the Independence Foundation, and the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Emerging Artist Award, and she has worked at the Jingdezhen International Studio in China and the Gaya Ceramic Art Center in Bali, Indonesia.
Mabry has shown in numerous institutions including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, (Omaha, NE), Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA) and Milwaukee Art Museum, (Milwaukee, WI), and her work is included in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, (Kansas City, MO), Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, (Sedalia, MO), Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, (Overland Park, KS), and Sheldon Museum of Art, (Lincoln, NE).
In 2007, Mabry completed her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, and she received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012. Mabry is represented by Pentimenti, (Philadelphia, PA), and Ferrin Contemporary.