Born in La Jolla, CA, multimedia artist Lauren Carbone has been a competitive figure skater, a sorority sister, an Art instructor, an NFL cheerleader, a wood shop technician, and a personal assistant to the director of Trade at the New York Mercantile Exchange. It is this eclectic background that draws Carbone to personal narratives, universal experiences, and the art of storytelling. She earned her M.F.A. in Sculpture and New Media at Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, and also studied at the Rome campus. She holds a B.A. in Art Studio from the University of California, Davis. Recent group exhibitions include Juried Show at Collision Machine, Brooklyn NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Workin’ it Out, The Laundromat, Brooklyn NY, Jillian Baba, Jillian Baba Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Success, The Barber Shop Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Carbone lives and works in Reno, NV and Staten Island, NY. She is currently working on a video ice-skating series where she and her fiance play the part of two aspiring actors cast in the role of pair figure skaters for the no-ice opera, “No Ice, But Skate of Pain”. As the title suggests, they perform skating moves in various places without ice. Carbone edits the footage and adds music and vocals, connecting non-linear movement to create a routine or “opera”. Subtext additionally reveals the storyline.
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