Lauren YS

This piece of original artwork comes ready to hang.

This September 15th-24th, Murals In The Market will make a triumphant return to Detroit’s Historic Eastern Market as more than 50 local and international muralists will be painting live throughout the district over the course of 10 days in the second year of the city’s only international mural festival. In the spirit of placemaking and public art we are proud to announce our partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Eastern Market Corporation as presenting sponsors of this historic public arts festival. In addition, Tyree Guyton legendary Detroit artist and creator of the Heidelberg Project will be joining Murals In The Market for a new activation.

FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE:
1010 - Apex 1 / 2 - Ben Saginaw - Cey Adams - Chris Saunders 1 / 2
Clifton Perry - Dalek 1 / 2 - Dessislava Terzieva - Ellen Rutt
Freddy Diaz - Felipe Pantone - Ghostbeard - Greg Mike -
Hebru Brantley 1 / 2 - Hueman - Janette Beckman - Jeff Gress
Jeremiah Britton 1 / 2 - Jesse Kassel - Kevin Lyons - Kristin Farr
Lauren Harrington 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Lauren YS 1 / 2 / 3 - Marka27 1 / 2
Meggs 1 / 2 - Mr. Jago - NNII - Nicole Macdonald - Olayami Dabls
Patch Whisky - Pat Perry 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 - Patrick Ethen
Paul Johnson 1 / 2 - Paula Schubatis 1 / 2 / 3 - Pixelpancho - Ricky Powell
Shades - Sheefy - Sheryo & The Yok 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Slick - Sydney James
Tiff Massey 1 / 2 - Tylonn Sawyer - Tyree Guyton
Vaughn Taormina - Xenz 1 / 2 / 3 - Zak Meers


ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Lauren YS moved from Denver to the Bay five years ago to attend Stanford University where she studied Visual Art and English. She started painting murals as a way to work large, travel, connect with urban landscapes and other artists who share a lifestyle of wanderlust. She is inspired by forests and oceans, nasty feelings, things that grow while we are sleeping, ultraviolet colorscapes, little girls who fight monsters, black holes, cybernetic organisms, love, death and jelly.

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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.