Lauren Raine
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Lauren Raine is a painter, sculptor, mask artist, and choreographer with work in international private, public, and museum collections. She holds a BFA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA in painting and cross-disciplinary arts from the University of Arizona (1987). She has also attended Otis Art Institute and the New England Institute for Art Therapy. She participated in the New York Renaissance Festival in 1989, and as an exhibitor at the Symposium for Art and the Invisible Reality at Rutgers University (organized by Dr. Rafael Montanez Ortiz). At the Renaissance Festival she learned to make Commedia del Arte masks, and was introduced to the shamanic use of masks. She began a mask business in 1991 after winning "Best of Show" at the Mill Ave Arts Festival in Tempe, Arizona, and in 1992 designed a line of mythic masks for festivals. In 1999 she opened Rites of Passage Gallery in Berkeley, California, and created The Masks of the Goddess for the Reclaiming Community's Spiral Dance[citation needed] In 2000 she made masks for Tragos and Hungry Ghosts of Albion, a film and play by Antero Alli. In 2000 she went to Bali, where she studied with master maskmaker Ida Bagus Anom, and produced (with Anom and others) collaborative works that were exhibited (and performed) at Buka Creati Gallery in Ubud. She has taught at the Starwood Festival in 2003[1] and 2005[2], and at other events in the magical and Neo-pagan community.
[edit] Recent performances
- Restoring the Balance, Nations Hall Theatre, Tucson, AZ. (With Katherine Josten and The Global Art Project)
- Goddess (choreographer Serene Zloof) performance at Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors, New York, N.Y.
- Woman With A Thousand Faces at Black Box Theatre, Oakland, Ca.
- The Divine Feminine ritual directed by Evelie Posche, at the University of Creation Spirituality, Oakland, Ca.
[edit] Recent exhibitions
- Masks of Transformation, Univ. of Illinois Museum of Art, Carbondale, Illinois (featured speaker)
- Masks, Visages & Veils & Sacred Icons - Symbolic and Ritual Objects (2005 & 2006) Artisans Center of Virginia
- Liminal, 2-person show at Turn of the Century Gallery, Berkeley, Calif. (with Rye Hudak)
- Sacred Mask - Sacred Space, MUSE Gallery, Tucson, Az., (with Catherine Nash)
- Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
