Artist: Lauren Lesley | Location: Atlanta, GA
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Artist: Lauren Lesley | Location: Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA
Lauren Lesley's drawings explore the fragile architecture of memory and its entanglement with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Her practice traces patterns of doubt, repetition, and preservation, grounded in the emotional landscape of childhood. Working in delicate grayscale realism drawings, she renders tattered toys and half-remembered objects with obsessive attention to light and texture, where fear, tenderness, and longing quietly converge. Repetition functions as both subject and strategy, mirroring the cognitive loops of OCD while transforming drawings of sensory recollections into a still space amid disorder. Lesley is a Fine Artist from Greenville, South Carolina, and an MFA candidate at Georgia State University. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in addition to being featured in publications like Oxford American Magazine and Strokes of Genius 9: The Best of Drawing.
Artist Website
https://www.laurenlesleyart.com/