NOVEMBER 9, 2022 - JANUARY 4, 2023

Opening Reception with the Artist
Wednesday, November 9, 6 – 8 PM

SOCO Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Green World, a solo exhibition by artist Lauren Luloff. The gallery will host a public opening reception November 9, 2022 from 6-8PM. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with SOCO Gallery.

Green World presents new dyed silk works created by the artist from the current year, 2022.  Luloff dyes silk to create captivating environments stewed with rich colors, textures and a sense of touch. Through painting and sewing, the artist collages together disparate elements whose friction and harmony coalesce to form a narrative.  Luloff’s pieces are about endlessness, an everlasting flow of images, narratives and color relationships. 

The timely process includes brush-painting the dyes onto the stretched fabric, and then unstretching and steaming the silk to allow the dye to permanently set. Influenced by the landscape around her, Luloff distills the colors into simplified forms – waves, trees, and florals can be seen in the silks. Luloff finds inspiration in "color combinations, light, shadows… flowers everywhere." 

Each dyed silk represents a moment in time, creating conversations between light and space. Interacting with the works can be compared to looking through window film, out towards a dimensionally altered and intensely colorful reality. The tile-like grids create a graceful contrast to the sublime shapes of nature. They play together paradoxically, implying both chaos and order. 

Lauren Luloff (Origin, B. 1980)

Lauren Luloff, born 1980, in Dover, New Hampshire, received her MFA from The Milton Avery College of Art, Bard College and her BFA from Pennsylvania State University. Recent solo exhibitions have been with Friedman Gallery, New York; Ceysson and Benetiere, New York; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg and Geneva, Switzerland; Marlborough Chelsea, New York; The Hole, New York; and Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy. Notable group exhibitions include Galerie Lelong, New York; CANADA Gallery, New York; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; The Queens Museum, Queens, NY; Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain, and Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy. Her work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, Vogue, T Magazine, Art in America, the Huffington Post and the Village Voice among others. She has been awarded residencies by The Bau Institute, in Cassis, France, The Macedonia Institute, in Chatham, NY and DNA Residency in Provincetown, MA. Luloff lives and works in Maine.