Lauren Kalman

JELO6 PROJECT AWARD, CYPRUS 2025 - INDIVIDUAL ARTIST

Artist Statement 

I make performative objects that use my body as a tool for production and as an installation site. In the experimental jewelry series, Devices for Filling a Void, I combine gold-plated electroformed copper and brass and flameworked glass. These sculptures literally fill the voids of the body. They also imply a psychological filling of emotional or erotic voids. The works point to ideas about women being incomplete or lacking, requiring augmentation by men, objects, dress, makeup, and adornment. These jewelry objects which range from the miniature to human scale are presented as an installation along with images showing how they are sited on the body when the body is absent from the objects in physical space.

Curriculum Vitae 

Lauren Kalman is an internationally recognized artist with an extensive exhibition history. In 2025, her work was featured in A Blueprint of Resonance at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Jewelry Code at the National Museum of Kazakhstan, and the JELO6 Project in Cyprus. She has held solo exhibitions at the Pittsburgh Glass Center (2025) and the I.M. Weiss Gallery in Detroit (2024). Her practice has been showcased at prestigious institutions including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Korean International Ceramic Biennale, and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. Her work has traveled extensively across Europe and China as part of the 21 grams exhibition.

Title: #39

Collection: Devices For Filling A Void

Kind: Other, Headpiece

Materials: Gold-plated Electroformed Copper and Brass