meet the artist

ABOUT

Lauren Jones Worth is a North Carolina artist who creates mixed media collage paintings that are a blend of abstraction and representation exploring the real and the imaginary found in the natural world. It is her goal to cultivate curiosity and encourage the discovery of beauty in the strangest of places. “I celebrate the hum of the earth-the dance and rhythm of life.” She seeks to encourage the viewer to pay close attention to the nuances of our earthly ecosystem, nurture its fragility, and strive to leave the world a cleaner, healthier planet for future generations.

Worth uses a combination of acrylic paints and mediums, handmade and decorative papers, original stencils and drawings, and images found in magazines and travel catalogs. She has exhibited in art fairs in Aspen, Seattle, LA, and New York through Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc, on artsy.net and galleries throughout North Carolina. Her work has been featured in Charleston Style and Design, Art and Antiques, Art Cover, and O’Henry magazines. Her work is in private and public collections on both East and West coasts. 

Artist Statement & CV

Our biological evolution teaches us that we are one with nature, though our current society tries to persuade us otherwise. Loss of connection to the natural world results in loss of self. In my paintings, I strive to reconnect myself and others through playful reverence of the outdoor world. I’m not only looking for nature’s perfections but also the aberrations and strangeness that can be so delightful and surprising to discover if we only take the time. It is in the careful study of those imperfections — the asymmetry of shape, the roughness of texture, the decay and impermanence of lifeforms — that we can truly understand and appreciate the imperfections in ourselves.

My current body of work is like deviating from a familiar forest path and discovering a strange garden. Each piece skirts the border between the real and the imagined like the memory of a childhood pastime exploring the natural world. I create my work through a blending of paint, original stencils and drawings, and found imagery bearing witness to nature in all its wonder and fragility. I intend for my work to remind us of the garden we loved but lost over time.

Education

  • 2003: UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, MALS

  • 1976: Stephens College, Columbia Mo., B.A. in Communications, Minor in Drawing & Painting

  • 1974-75: Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, Art History

  • 1972: Governor’s School of North Carolina

  • Spring/Summer 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013: Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC in painting and drawing

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2026 Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc. (New York, New York) Artsy.net Viewing Room

  • 2024 Troika Contemporary Crafts & Phoenix Hardwoods (Floyd, Va)

  • 2023 Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc. (New York, New York) Artsy.net Viewing Room

  • 2018 Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc. (New York, New York)

  • 2016 Semans Gallery, Durham Arts Council (Durham, NC)

  • 2015 Tyler White O'Brien Gallery (Greensboro, NC)

  • 2014 Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc. (New York, New York)

  • 2013 Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc. (New York, New York)

  • 2012 Shain Gallery (Charlotte, NC)

  • 2011 Crook's Corner Restaurant (Chapel Hill, NC)

  • 2010 Tyler White O'Brien Gallery (Greensboro, NC)

  • 2009 Green Hill Center for NC Art Gallery Shop (Greensboro, NC)

  • 2008 Tyler White O'Brien Gallery (Greensboro, NC)

Group Exhibitions

  • 2023 Collector’s Choice, Green Hill Center for NC Art (Greensboro, NC)

  • 2020 Collector’s Choice, Green Hill Center for NC Art (Greensboro, NC)

  • 2020 ART ON PAPER in Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc. Booth (New York, New York)

  • 2019 SEATTLE ART FAIR in Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc. Booth (Seattle, WA)

  • 2019 Robin Branstrom Fine Art with Elizabeth Bruns Jewelers Inc. (Charlotte, NC)

  • 2018 ART ON PAPER in Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc. Booth (New York, New York)

  • 2018 LA ART SHOW in Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc. Booth (Los Angeles, CA)

  • 2018 East West Fine Art Gallery (Naples, FL)

  • 2016 Collectors Choice, Green Hill Center for NC Art (Greensboro, NC)

  • 2016 Gallery Artists Part XIII, Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc. (New York, New York)

  • 2016 ART ASPEN in the Walter Wickier Gallery Inc. Booth (Aspen, CO)

  • 2015 LA ART SHOW in the Walter Wickiser Gallery Inc. Booth (Los Angeles, CA)

  • 2014 NC Artists' Juried Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society (Raleigh, NC)

  • 2013 Sechrest Art Gallery, High Point University (High Point, NC)

  • 2013 Grovewood Gallery (Asheville, NC)

  • 2013 Vision Gallery (Atlantic Beach, NC)

  • 2013 TRCW, Art Meets Fashion (Charlotte, NC)

  • 2012 5th National Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery (New York, New York)

  • 2012 NC Artists Juried Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society (Raleigh, NC)

  • 2012 The Mahler Fine Art Gallery (Raleigh, NC)

  • 2011 Tyler White Gallery (Greensboro, NC)

  • 2011 Collectors Choice, Green Hill Center for NC Art (Greensboro, NC)

  • 2011 Art of the Auction Juried Show, NC Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC)

  • 2011 Vision Gallery (Atlantic Beach, NC)

  • 2008 Tyler White Gallery (Figure 8 Island, Wilmington, NC)

  • 2008 The Design Gallery (Burnsville, NC)

Public Collections

  • Moses Cone Hospital Cancer Center, Greensboro, NC 

  • Moses Cone Hospital Stephen D Bell Family Heart & Vascular Center, Greensboro, NC 

  • Athora Care of Greensboro, NC 

  • Well-Spring Retirement Community, Greensboro, NC 

  • Elon University, Burlington, NC 

  • Atrium Health Hospital, Pineville, NC 

  • Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY

Paintings are in private collections on the East and West coasts. 

Professional and Community Service in the Art World

Professional experience includes work as a graphic designer in earlier years, and from 1989-1999 a painter of faux finishes and trompe-l’oeil for the Wind Rose, an importer of antiques and accessories selling to an international clientele with showrooms in Greensboro and High Point, NC. I have served on the board of Greenhill Center for NC Art, Chair of the Weatherspoon Art Museum Foundation, Chair/Co-Founder of the Public Art Endowment, an initiative of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, and Women’s Gateway Initiative, Green Hill Center for NC Art and the Cone Health Art Selection Committee. 

Contact

Lauren Jones Worth
lworth7@gmail.com

For inquiries about purchases or commissions, please contact:
Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc., NYC
walterwickisergallery.com
212-945-0711
wwickiserg@aol.com