Biography
Rachael Lauterborn is a visual artist and photographer who works between Lancaster, PA and her hometown Bloomingburg, N.Y. She is a Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, majoring in Fine Art and dual minoring in Photography and Business. Lauterborn uses a variety of materials and techniques in her work and incorporates photography with her fine art practices across painting, drawing, and sculpture. While she continues to explore both photography and fine art, she fully embraces the unknown through experimentation and improvisation. She uses techniques that are challenged by risk-taking, embracing her creative process and expression.
Artist Statement
As an emerging artist, my artistic media varies as I grow, ranging from painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. I am a process-driven artist, combining photography and fine art media, finding new ways to entice the viewer’s curiosity about what they are viewing and have them question the artistic process that fuels my work. The process of my art is far more significant to me than the final product, striving for a great outcome but aiming for others also to understand the process to the result. I find I am drawn to creating miniatures/ sculptures. Manipulating materials to create standard everyday objects we see in miniature form. As I work, I create potential story scenarios, engaging the viewer to question the outcome without revealing the backstory. Creating intricate scenes, I have the ability to then incorporate photography to capture different views creating forced perspectives, and different atmospheres. Creating these forced perspectives enhances different ways of seeing, showing all the details while also incorporating digital manipulation to create a sense of wonder for the viewer. By making mock-ups/prototypes I can get an understanding of what does and does not work, enhancing new possibilities, and finding myself in a state of improvisation.