Lorien Stern
Lorien Stern is an American visual artist, designer, and illustrator. She is known for her whimsical and colorful drawings and ceramic sculptures of animals.[1] WorkLorien Stern attended California College of the Arts in Oakland, graduating with a BFA degree in 2013. In an interview with Urban Outfitters, she said she entered art school as a painting major, but became drawn to sculpture after making an urn for her father's ashes.[2] She is best known for her colorful, cartoon-like ceramic shark heads.[3] She has said that making the sharks helps with her fear of them and that a theme in her work is, "finding the harmony in sad and happy things and making scary things approachable.”[4] In 2020, she partnered with Edie Parker, a handbag line, to design several handbags and marijuana accessories, with a share of the proceeds going to a criminal justice organization.[5] Solo exhibitions of Stern's work have been shown at galleries including Breakfast in Santa Barbara,[6] Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco,[7] and Park Life in San Francisco.[3] She also sells clothes and accessories with her artwork.[8] Personal lifeStern lives and works in a trailer on her family's land in Inyokern, a small town in the Mojave Desert.[1][9] She formerly lived in Ojai.[6] References
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