about.

Lauren Poretsky is a interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Northern Connecticut. Lauren’s work lies at the intersection of feminism, consumerism, and capitalist identity. She curiously challenges the epidemic-like infiltration of capitalist and consumer culture in our everyday lives, from obvious quotidian purchasing to unpaid domestic labor and inequitable wealth distribution, our lives mechanized on a literal budget, of time, money, and capacity. In a country and society that values capital over community, production and profit over personhood, liquidity over love, hierarchy over humanity, money and markets over magnanimity, has purchasing power gone extinct? Is it empowering to maintain autonomy in our consumer decisions, or is choice an illusion, disempowering, how inaccessible the non-commodified has become? Playing with marketing and advertising visuals, consumerist and monetary-related materials in print, installation, video and performance, Lauren’s work begins to tackle these conundrums and the burdensome impact they have on the ways in which we see ourselves. 

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Lauren received her Bachelors of Arts, Art History from Binghamton University, and will receive her Master’s of Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts this July. Her work has been shown in New York, Connecticut, Florida, Colorado, and California.