The Wooden Walls Mural Project is proud to announce the addition of a brand new work from Lauren YS! The new mural is located at Sunset Pavilion on the Asbury Park Boardwalk. The artist affectionately refers to the figure in the new mural as her “Mothbaby”, and the mural kicks off the 2018 Wooden Walls series in Asbury Park.
Lauren YS (@squid.licker) is a Bay Area artist whose work is influenced by multiple stages of focus, both geographically and in practice. With dynamic bouts in academics, literature and writing, teaching, illustration, and animation leading up to her arrival in the urban art sphere, the influences of these phases of her own career add up to a robust style of murals and fine art. Since graduating, Lauren has dedicated herself to creating large-scale works of public art that aim to bring a sense of vibrancy and wonder to every community she approaches.
Lauren’s work aims to create and populate a misfit wonderland in which imaginary heroines can address the absurdities of reality in the confines of a page or a wall. Influenced by dreams, mythology, death, comics, love, sex, psychedelia, animation, nostalgia, and her Asian-American heritage, Lauren’s work is often geared towards pushing a narrative undertone and always has a fantastical aesthetic.
Lauren has completed a residency and solo show at Nychos’ Rabbit Eye Movement studio in Vienna, and has since shown work and live-painted at various international art festivals and institutions. Festivals include Art Basel Miami, Pow!Wow! Hawaii, PangeaSeed SeaWalls (New Zealand), Wander and Wayfare SF, Colorado Crush. Outdoor and indoor mural locations include the World Trade Center in New York. She has shown work in galleries nationwide and in International cities including Vienna, London, Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney.
Lauren is also a contributing writer for Juxtapoz Magazine.
To find out more about the artist and to see more of her incredible work, please visit http://laurenys.com
