Featured Artist:

Lauren Kistner

I am a color pusher. With the tools of my trade, bought and made, folding, building, hiding, marring and marrying. The narrative of life ensues; each line akin to a wrinkle, something that took place over time. Through an intuitive process, I communicate in waves on a panel, each layer of paint achieves ridges, peaks and valleys, then transparency depth and color. A narrative derived from experiences, mistakes, and possibilities.

Lauren T Kistner puts the art in artery with her Anatomy Nouveau watercolor illustrations—where science gets a stylish glow-up and bones go full-on Baroque. Her work fuses vintage medical diagrams with the flowing curves of Art Nouveau, creating a body of work that’s love your guts groovy. 

From frolicking femurs to gilded guts, each piece celebrates the beautiful mess beneath our skin. Inspired by the wonders of the human body, the natural world, and a well-timed pun, Lauren illustrates life’s inner workings with a palette as soft as a heartbeat and lines as smooth as a synapse. 

Lauren received her BFA in Painting and Photography, Cum Lade, from Cornish College of the Arts in Seatle, WA in 2006 and has been actively exploring her career in painting, photography, lapidary and silversmithing. She organizes the Meridian Fine Art Festival and manages the gift shop at Art Source Gallery. In her free time, she enjoys working in the garden with her cats and chickens or exploring and finding inspiration in this beautiful state with her pup and favorite person of all time.