John Lauer is an artist and architectural/ exhibit designer.
He lives in a treehouse on the edge of Appalachia. His work is characterized by inventive form-making, spaces for imagining, and curves, curves, curves.
“I’m never going to make a box.”
CHIMERA from Demon Heads series
ART
I make Demon Heads out of paper. That’s Demon as in inner demon/ daemon as in guiding spirit. They are meant as symbols of resistance and inner strength. “Don’t tread on me.”
I’m drawn to fantastical beasts and to world-wide mask traditions, but I take a clean, modern, architecturally-informed approach. My curlicues are structural, my double-heads are interdependent. My forms are white, painted in shadow.
MAKE Studio Attractor from JUMP
Design
I create spaces for active imagining and open-ended play. They’re not just for kids. Whether they’re funny contraptions you get inside of or gallery-wide immersive environments, they’re meant to spark a sense of adventure and in a museum setting, help kids, teens, adults, and seniors enter extra-ordinary worlds, try new things, and actively learn through open-ended play with old friends and new.
