Born in Washington, D.C., artist Lauren Henkin grew up in Maryland, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and now resides in New York City.
She states, “My primary subject is the American landscape. I’m interested in photographing the tension between preservation and extinction.”
Henkin is an educator, writer, frequent speaker, author and active member in the arts community. Her work is widely collected by private collectors as well as institutions such as Cleveland Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, Yale University and Dartmouth College. Her work has been published in numerous journals on photography and the book arts including PDN, Black+White Magazine, Urbanautica, Landscape Stories, Parenthesis and The Washington Post. She is a Px3 multi-category winner, Oregon Regional Arts & Culture Council grant winner, with other award nominations in both the Brink Emerging Artist and Contemporary Northwest Art Awards.
She is also the co-founder and co-editor of Tilted Arc, a journal on the arts.
Her work is currently represented by Foley Gallery in New York City.
Born 1974, Washington, D.C.
1996 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Foley Gallery is delighted to present The Park, photographer Lauren Henkin’s five-year study of Central Park. This is the first time a selection of these photographs will be seen by the public. It is also Henkin’s New York City debut.
Henkin began The Park in 2009 on a visit from Oregon. She returned every summer to photograph, and moved to New York in 2012 to work full-time on the series. Different from other recent photographic studies of Central Park, she gives us those indefinable moments that prompt you to wake up on a Saturday morning and think, « I want to spend the day in the park.»
Henkin has spent a decade photographing the American landscape. Instead of a documentary approach, she focuses on reinterpreting the everyday in unexpected ways. The Park emphasizes the act of seein...