Lauren YS

The framing option for this RUN includes a 1 Inch Black Wood Frame with UV-Glass, Foam Core Backing and Ready to Hang Hardware.

PangeaSeed’s Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans is the first movement of its kind helping to save our seas via public art and activism (ARTivism). The festival will feature 30 world-renowned contemporary artists from across the globe, collaborating to bring vital ocean environmental issues into the spotlight. The festival’s educational workshops will engage local youth to learn more about critical marine environmental issues affecting their home island, and what they can do to help save our seas. Sea Walls aims to educate and inspire individuals and communities to protect the planet’s most important ecosystem: the ocean.

1xRUN is proud to announce the 2015 Featured Sea Walls artists:
Naturel - Hueman - Lauren Ys - Tatiana Suarez - Zio Ziegler - Zak Rutledge & Tre Packard - Jason Botkin - Fintan Magee - Meggs - Tristan Eaton - Aaron Glasson and Celeste Byers

This RUN is signed, numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from Lauren YS and 1xRUN.

Lauren YS is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work is influenced by multiple stages of focus, both geographically and in practice. With dynamic bouts in academics, literature and writing, teaching, illustration, and animation leading up to their arrival in the urban art sphere, the influences of these phases of their own career add up to a robust style of murals and fine art.

Lauren's work is influenced by dreams, mythology, death, comics, love, sex, psychedelia, animation and their Asian-American heritage.

Lauren has completed a residency and solo show at Nychos' Rabbit Eye Movement studio in Vienna, and has since shown work and live-painted at various international art festivals and institutions. Festivals include Art Basel Miami, Pow!Wow! Hawaii, PangeaSeed SeaWalls (New Zealand), Pow!Wow! Long Beach, Wallskar Festival China. Outdoor and indoor mural locations include the Long Beach Museum of Art and the World Trade Center in New York. They have shown work in galleries nationwide and in International cities including Vienna, New York, London, Tokyo and Melbourne.