Lauren Blair: The House that Built Me

Lauren Blair is a multidisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon, whose work explores emotional resonance of the natural world. Drawing from her background in Studio Art and Ecology, she creates layered paintings that highlight overlooked details of plants, insects, and wild spaces. Her practice centers nature as a site of memory, belonging, and refuge, inviting viewers to reconnect with moments of awe and consider their relationship to the environment. About "The House That Built Me" - I spent June helping my parents clear out our childhood home in Upstate New York so it can be sold. I could spend a lifetime trying to capture this place and the land that shaped who I am. Everything I know about Nostalgia was learned by missing this place. This piece is a love letter to the things I'll miss the most and the gratitude I feel for my home on Fox Road.