Work Archives - Lauren Thorson

RGB Spirograph

21.5 x 21.5 inches
BIC® 4-Color™
XY Mechanical Plotter
2012

Pink Spirograph

21.5 x 21.5 inches
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2012

Bridge

January 1, 2014 – May 1, 2017

CBA Flag

Studio-Set
Visual Identity
Center for Book Arts
New York City, NY
2021

Artist-in-Residence

Mt. San Angelo Residency
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)
Amherst, VA
December 6, 2021 – December 20, 2021

Plot 73

Gradient III Series
42 x 36 inches (ink)
Sharpie on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2020

“I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.”

Catalog Design
Center for Book Arts
6 x 8.25 inches
New York, NY
2020

A New Manifesto for Book Art Criticism

Studio-Set
Design
Book Art Review
2020

Drawing 2

Sunset Series
42 x 64 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Neon Curtain

XY1XY2XY3XY4
An exhibition that occupies infinite meridian’s available for world building
curated by Meridian
neon glass tubing
419 Broad St Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018

Untitled–2017 exhibited in

Edging Forward: New Prints 2018/Winter
International Print Center New York (IPCNY)
535 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
January 11, 2018 – March 28, 2018

Open Source Essay 2, it was pretty nice today

commissioned for 'Open Source'
Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines
Newsprint
folded
Strasbourg, France
2015

Drawing 1 from Sunset Series

Sunset Series
42 x 66 inches
Sharpie®
XY Mechanical Plotter
February 3, 2021 – April 20, 2021

VCCA #1 Longest Night

Mt. San Angelo Residency
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Amherst, VA
December 6, 2021 – December 20, 2021

Volume V

Design Feature, Studio-Set
X/I
2015

Misc.

Studio-Set

EXPO REFORMA, Material Art Fair

Website disruption, Studio-Set
Good Weather Gallery
Frontón México, Mexico City
February 8, 2018 – February 11, 2018

Plot 127

Weave
17 x 25 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
June 13, 2014

Plot 128

Weave
17 x 25 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
June 12, 2014

Glass Garden

Solo exhibition
SEDIMENT Gallery
Richmond, VA
March 1, 2018 – March 31, 2018

Pecha Kucha

Studio-Set
Department of Graphic Design, Virginia Commonwealth University
2015

Color Changing Publication

1st publication
8.5 x 11 inches, 19 pages
Color changing marker
staple binding
Xerox copies
1991

Cirrocumulus 1

pre-sunset
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2014

Bulletin #1 – “Technology and Language”

Studio-Set
Lecture/Workshop
Department of Graphic Design and Literary Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign County, Illinois
March 5, 2014 – March 7, 2014

Plot 77

Gradient III Series
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2020

Cast of Characters 활자의 모습

Workshop, Lecture
College of Art and Design, Khung Hee University
Seoul, South Korea
October 11, 2019 – October 13, 2019

“I can hardly bear when it’s over, I can hardly bear when it starts”

Brittany Nelson
Typography, Design
CAP • Saint-Fons Art Center
8’06”
single channel video
2022

Plot 112

Screen-Windows
15 x 22 inches (sheet)
Sharpie® on paper
Warm Grey BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Sunset Compression #2

Sunset Series
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Margin, 6

Studio-Set
19 x 25 inches

Margin, 5

Studio-Set
19 x 25 inches

Margin, 4

Studio-Set
19 x 25 inches

Margin, 3

Studio-Set
19 x 25 inches

Plot 83

Gradient II Series
20.5 x 22 inches
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
June 13, 2021

Margin, 2

Studio-Set
19 x 25 inches

Margin, 1

Studio-Set
19 x 25 inches
May 1, 2015 – Present

Red Gradient

Gradient I Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
1 Sharpie® unit on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Familiars

Exhibition Materials
SEDIMENT Gallery
Richmond, VA
2017

VCUarts GDES Mailer

Creative Direction, Design
Virginia Commonwealth University
A0, 33.1 x 46.8 inches flat, 8.27 x 11.7 inches folded
70# Matte white text, Flood gloss AQ
2019

Plot 36

22 x 27.5 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2017

Tasmeem Doha 2017

Conference Identity
Biennial International Art & Design Conference, VCUQatar
Doha, Qatar
2017

Out of the Everywhere

Monograph for artist Brittany Nelson
Creative direction, Publication design
Mousse Publishing
2019

Plot 121

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 4, 2013

Number: 99 Wizardly prohibition; spells within reason

Art Direction, Design, Guest Editor with Chase Westfall
Number: Inc
newsprint
2019

Ficciones Typografika 1642, Erik Brandt

Feature
Minneapolis, MN
2019

05-15-2021 Drawing

Sunset Series
38 x 47 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
May 5, 2021

Plot 20

Sunset Series
38 x 50 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Plot 45

ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2016

Plot 67

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Plot 97

Screen-Windows
30 x 26.5 inches
Ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
October 10, 2021

Drawing 2

Screens–Windows Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
Grey BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Plot 118

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 9, 2013

Center for Book Arts 2021 Virtual Benefit

honoring Alison Knowles
CBA sub-identity, Studio-Set
Center for Book Arts
New York City, NY
2021

Jestem z Polski, I Am from Poland

Monograph for Wojtek Wieteska
Publication Design, Studio-Set
2013

Plot 119

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 6, 2013

Drawing 4

Screen-Windows Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
Ink on paper
Grey BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
July 27, 2021

Drawing 1

Gradient II Series
22 x 30 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2013

Cirrocumulus 5

pre-sunset
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2014

Ficciones Typografika 034-036

July 22, 2013

Cirrocumulus 2

pre-sunset
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2014

Cirrocumulus 4

pre-sunset
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2014

Cirrocumulus 3

pre-sunset
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2014

Plot 74

Gradient III Series
42 x 36 inches (ink)
Sharpie® on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2020

Plot 123

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 11, 2013

Sun You, Grow into a Field

exhibition poster design
Anderson Gallery
Richmond, VA
2018

Plot 76

Gradient III Series
42 x 36 inches (ink)
Sharpie® on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2020

Green Gradient

Gradient I Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
1 Sharpie® unit on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Sister Sunset

Screen-Windows
15 x 22 inches (sheet)
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2020

Showcard for Good Weather Gallery

Sunday Art Fair
digital
London, England
2017

Plot 1

42 x 47 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
March 31, 2021

Internet Poems About #Weather

STRANGE WEATHER : Forecasts of the Future Exhibition
Science Gallery Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
July 18, 2014 – September 5, 2014

Silver Window

Screens-Windows Series
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Plot 104

Sunset Series
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Plot 23

Gradient II Series
48 x 42 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Plot 78

22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2020

Plot 29

26 x 36 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2018

Tasmeem Doha 2017 Catalogue

Post Conference Catalogue
Art Direction, Publication design
Biennial International Art & Design Conference, VCUQatar
11.69 x 16.53 inches, 104 pages
Glossy 150 gsm + Laminated cover
Doha, Qatar
2019

Plot 61

Ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2016

Plot 107

Screens-Windows Series
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Plot 64

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
Ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Untitled–2017

44 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2017

Plot 99

38.25 x 46 inches
Sharpie® on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2019

Screen 10-09-2021

Ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
October 9, 2021

Plot 96

20.5 x 31 inches (drawing)
Ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Only Posters

Posters Only
2021

Plot 124

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 5, 2013

Plot 37

Gradient I Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
1 Sharpie® unit on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Farrand Garage

22 x 30 inches
Sharpie® on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2017

Voids, Studio-Set

2014

Plot 95

22 x 30 inches (sheet)
Ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2014

Plot 34

ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2014

Plot 84

22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
BFK Rives
BFK Rives

Drawing from 05-12-2013

18 x 24 inches
Ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
May 12, 2013

Drawing from 03-10-2021

Weave
42 x 34 inches
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
March 10, 2021

Plot 75

22 x 27.5 inches (sheet)
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter

Plot 120

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 1, 2013

Plot 122

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 7, 2013

Plot 72

22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Plot 91

22 x 27.5 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter

Plot 90

22 x 30 inches (sheet)
Sharpie® on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter

Plot 89

22 x 27.5 inches (sheet)
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter

Misc.

Studio-Set

Plot 86

22 x 30 inches (sheet)
Ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2016

Plot 85

Gradient II Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
2 Sharpie® units on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2017

Weather data 05–12–2013 exhibited in

New Prints 2014/ Winter
International Print Center New York (IPCNY)
535 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
January 22, 2014 – March 12, 2014

Cloudpainter #5

Cloudpainter Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Cloudpainter #3

Cloudpainter Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Cloudpainter #2

Cloudpainter Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Plot 126

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 8, 2013

Plot 125

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 10, 2013

Weather data 05–12–2013

22 x 30 inches (sheet)
Sharpie® on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2013

Cloudpainter #1.5

Cloudpainter Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2014

Anderson Publishing Grant

Anderson Gallery
Richmond, VA
August 20, 2018 – Present

Journal – No. 21

Spring/Summer 2014 – Vol. 11
Design Feature, Studio-Set
Ninth Letter
2014

letter on tabloid

risograph
2015

Showcard for Good Weather Gallery

Material Art Fair
Frontón México, Mexico City
2018

Blue Gradient

Gradient I Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
1 Sharpie® unit on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Polish Film Festival, 8th Edition

Identity Design, Studio-Set
Montante Cultural Center
ink on paper
Screenprint
Buffalo, NY
2014

Plot 71

Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter

Plot 135

Primary Test
20 x 20 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Alley Atlas, Andy Sturdavant

MAEP Gallery
Exhibition Design, Mapping, Publication, Studio-Set
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, MN
2013

Plot 65

22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2017

Summer 2016

ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2016

Plot 38

Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2016

Plot 27

ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Flag Show Exhibition materials

Studio-Set
Creative direction, Web design
2013

Yellow Gradient

Gradient I Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
1 Sharpie® unit on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Plot 19

Sunset Series
42 x 64 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Plot 22

Weave
42 x 34 inches
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
June 2, 2021

Provisional Blue 4 Quad

Sunset Series
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
October 5, 2021

Plot 15

42 x 34 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
March 26, 2021

Plot 42

Cloudpainter Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
Eldred, NY
2013

Ficciones Typografika 061-063

Huiqian Wu, Lauren Thorson, Anonymous
24 x 36 inches
Minneapolis, MN
August 13, 2013

Plot 114

ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2022

Polish Film Festival, 9th Edition

Identity Design, Studio-Set
The Montante Cultural Center
risograph
Buffalo, NY
2015

it was pretty nice today

7 x 9 inches
374 pages
Hardcover, digital offset bound in white cloth, machine sewn and stamping
2014

Wikipedia Random Article Collection

[NOW DEFUNCT]
www.random-wikipedia.com
January 1, 2013 – January 1, 2016

BIC® 4-Color™ Individual Ball Pen

Cast Sterling Silver
to scale
2018

Eyeo Festival

Conference Identity in collaboration with Erik Brandt
Spirographic illustrations
Minneapolis, MN
2012

Open Source Essays 1, 2, 3 (it was pretty nice today)

commissioned for 'Open Source'
Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines
Strasbourg, France
2015

Sharpie® Test sheets (ongoing…)

March 30, 2013 – Present

Dark Matter Vol. 15

Waterstone Review
Publication Design, Folio
Hamline University
6 x 9 inches
Softcover
2012

Drawing 5

Screen-Windows Series
22 x 27 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
Grey BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Drawing 3

Screen-Windows Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
Grey BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Drawing 5

Sunset Series
42 x 66 inches
Sharpie® on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Untitled

Gradient II
36 x 36 inches
1 Orange Sharpie® & 1 Pink Sharpie®
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Cloudpainter #1

Cloudpainter Series
22 x 30 inches
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2014

Primary Set

21 x 30 inches
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
September 10, 2015

Bridge, Studio-Set

XV International Chopin & Friends Festival
New York Dance & Arts Innovations, Inc. (NYDAI)
Brooklyn, NY
November 2, 2013 – November 15, 2013

CMYK ex. 4

CMYK Exercise
22 x 26 inches
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

RGB Path

Pathway Series
23 x 33 inches
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2015

Plot 9

44 x 77 inches
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2018

Plot 66

26 x 29 inches
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
January 10, 2017

Station Model: 10012

Younger than Storefront: Five-Day Artist Residencies
Artist-in-Residence
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street New York, NY 10012
January 14, 2013 – January 18, 2013

Untitled – Ongoing

Provisional Series
30 x 36 inches
ink on paper
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
March 1, 2017 – Present

Untitled for Oripeau

project by Atelier La Casse
6 rue Saint-Domingue Nantes, France
2017

Plot 117

Weave
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
BIC® 4-Color™
BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
April 11, 2013

((oa—ao))

Group Exhibition
Anderson Gallery
Richmond, VA
December 17, 2021 – January 7, 2022

Introductory Space Exercises

Space Grant & Exhibition
Anderson Gallery
Richmond, VA
2017

Drawing 1

Screens–Windows Series
22 x 30 inches (sheet)
ink on paper
Grey BFK Rives
XY Mechanical Plotter
2021

Untitled – Ongoing

Provisional Series
44.5 x 41.5 inches
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
July 1, 2022 – Present

Drawing 1

Gradient I Series
44.5 x 41.5 inches
1 Sharpie® unit on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
2019

Plot 111

Sunset Series
19.5 x 25.5 inches
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
February 17, 2021

Plotter Provisional 2018 – March 2020

Provisional Series
44.5 x 41.5 inches
ink on paper
XY Mechanical Plotter
May 1, 2018 – March 1, 2020