Sat down in my studio with Michael Workman for nearly three hours, had a really great chat about my work and being from Indiana (he’s from South Bend, I’m from Hobart – intellectuals on the lam). The interview is here, it’s insightful even for me!
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Sarah Terez Rosenblum at The Sun-Times had some great questions for me, and the Bad at Sports fellas did too! Thanks Christopher Hudgens and Richard Holland.
Here’s the links – enjoy!
Our Town with Sarah and Bad at Sports with Christopher and Richard. You should listen to the whole show but my interview starts at around minute 40.
I had the pleasure of talking with Christopher Hudgens and Richard Holland of Bad at Sports before my exhibition “Lantern Fly Sex Cure: New Insect Drawings” opened at Firecat Projects on Friday. It was a lot of fun, we could have gabbed for hours. Instead, here’s a 40 min. version of our talk (and it starts at around minute 40, but you should listen to the whole show because it’s always good).
photo by Christopher Hudgens, who drove all the way from St. Louis to come to the show and talk to me. Way to make a girl feel special!
Thank you Jeriah Hildwine for the coverage in Chicago Now, always nice!
“Decapitated Stag” 2011, graphite on Bristol Board, 12″ x 12″
"From the Bodies of Dead Horses" 2011 graphite on Bristol Board, 12" x 12"
“From the Bodies of Dead Horses” 2011, graphite on Bristol board, 12″ x 12″
This weekend I exhibited some drawings at Verge: Art Brooklyn with Firecat Projects, a new gallery venture by Tony Fitzpatrick and Stan Klein where they take no percentage of sales from their artists.
We had a grand time, some of my insect drawings found new homes, and Tony wrote some spectacular words about the fair and about my work.
“Lauren Levato is 33 years old — she makes exquisite drawings of insects — sensual, silent and pristine — her cicadas remind me of childhood summers that were too short and too long ago — they have a yesterday kind of beauty, like an old violet saved in a book. She is a tough Irish hillbilly from Hobart, Indiana — the daughter of a steelworker, who spent all of her summers wandering tall prairie grass and the Indiana dunes collecting crickets, cicadas and grasshoppers, and beating up boys. Her drawings are truly special.”
These are generous and humbling words from an artist like Tony. I was honored to be at the show and am really excited to be preparing an entire show of insect drawings for Firecat in June.
Here’s the article in its entirety. Put it on your calendar, we’ll probably be back next year.
The Case for Art Brooklyn by Tony Fitzpatrick
Lauren Levato and Tony Fitzpatrick at Firecat Projects, Verge: Art Brooklyn, March 2011 (above)
- Tony Fitzpatrick and Stan Klein at Firecat Projects, Verge: Art Brooklyn, March 2011 (below)
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