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  "description": "Lauren Januhowski works with sewn monotypes and embroidery in Paris. A Catapult Artist in Focus on textile, transmission, and the female body across generations.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-27T13:42:37.000Z",
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  "textContent": "**Lauren Januhowski**\n\n**Based in:**\nParis, France\n\n**Born:**\nHouston, Texas, 1992\n\n**Medium:**\nSewn Monotypes, Embroidery, Textile Installation\n\n**Education:**\nThe Cooper Union, BFA, 2015\nÉcole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Masters, 2020\n\n**Recent Exhibitions:**\nMandorla, Abbaye de Maubuisson, 2025–2026\n\"There's a Snake in My Boot\", Galerie Bim Bam, 2024 “What We Invoke”, 2026, Marquesa Gallery, curated by Victoria Rivers\n\n**Website:**\nlaurenjanuhowski.com\n\n**Image Courtesy:**\nCourtesy the Artist\n\n**Photography:**\n© Nicolas Brasseur, © Catherine Brossais, © Suzanne Bateman\n\n* * *\n\n## Lauren Januhowski - Paris, Sewn Monotypes and Embroidery\n\nFabric here is not background. It holds figures, female, layered, sometimes solid and sometimes nearly gone, against patchwork fields assembled from printed and treated cloth. What Lauren Januhowski builds through sewing and embroidery is a surface that records and transmits at once.\n\nThe transparency is structural. Organza layers over satin. The layers of transparent fabric suggest physical as well as emotional depth, what lies beneath is not hidden but held. This is what ritual does in fabric: it makes the present moment permeable to what came before.\n\n> Each stitch is a decision made by hand. What the hand decides, the hand can pass on.\n\n_Passage of Transfer_ (2024) carries this argument in its title. Built from bead and sequin embroidery with satin and organza appliqué, it holds layered female figures against a geometric patchwork interior, two bodies in the same space at different distances from the surface. The embroidery techniques entered Januhowski's practice during a residency at the Kalhath Foundation in Lucknow in late 2024, where she worked directly with local artisans. The work that emerged from that exchange is not documentation of a process but a record of what passed between hands.\n\nThe patchwork background is not decoration. Quilt logic, blocks of color joined at seams, each patch carrying its own print and opacity, runs through all of Januhowski's work as both formal strategy and inherited vocabulary. The quilt was the thing American women made to say something without being heard.\n\n****Lauren Januhowski:****__Supported Submersion__ - 2024****-**** bead, and sequin embroidery, satin and organza appliqué 97 cm x 137 cm.****Image Courtesy of the Artist********Lauren Januhowski:****__Supported Submersion__ - 2024****(**** Detail****) -**** bead, and sequin embroidery,satin and organza appliqué 97 cm x 137 cm.****Image Courtesy of the Artist****\n\nThe fabrics in these works carry images absorbed into cloth, gestures and surfaces that belong to print but have become structural to the textile. Supported Submersion, Tangled Webs, Collecting Cards, each extends the same premise, the sewn surface as a place where a body and its history can occupy the same plane.\n\n****Lauren Januhowski**** __Tangled Webs -__ Sewn monotypes, embroidered details, polyester organza, and glass beads __-__ 70 cm x 70 cm. Image Courtesy of the artist. Photo: © Nicolas Brasseur****Lauren Januhowski**** __- Collecting Cards__ - sewn monotypes, embroidered details, reflective polyester organza - 125 cm x 100 cm. Image Courtesy of the Artist****Lauren Januhowski**** __- Collecting Cards__ (Detail) - sewn monotypes, embroidered details, reflective polyester organza - 125 cm x 100 cm. Image Courtesy of the Artist\n\n _Continuity of Presence_ (2025), shown at the Abbaye de Maubuisson, takes this to architectural scale. Female figures, reading, wrap around the full circumference of a tall cylinder installed in a medieval room. They do not stop at any edge. They continue.\n\nJanuhowski trained at Cooper Union in New York, graduating in 2015, then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, earning her Masters in the Printed Image track with highest honors in 2020.\n\nBased in Paris, her recent solo at Galerie Bim Bam and her inclusion in  _Mandorla, Les Métamorphoses du Sacré_ at the Abbaye de Maubuisson, on view through March 2026, trace a practice that keeps expanding its scale without letting go of the intimacy a single stitch requires.\n\nWhat the quilt holds, the stitch decides.\n\nLauren Januhowski on Instagram\n\n* * *\n\n## Notable Works and Exhibition Views:\n\n****Lauren Januhowski**** __- There’s a Snake in My Boot__ (2024) - Walking in Lucknow: Ancestors (left) and Walking in Lucknow: Past Selves (right), diptych of two panels, bead embroidery, satin and organza appliqué, 265 cm x 90 cm (overall). Image Courtesy of the Artist****Lauren Januhowski**** - Walking in Lucknow: Ancestors (left, 125 x 90 cm) and Walking in Lucknow: Past Selves (right, 140 x 86 cm) (2024) - diptych, bead embroidery, satin and organza appliqué. Image Courtesy of the Artist****Lauren Januhowski**** - Continuity of Presence (2025) - monotypes printed on cotton and sewn, polyester organza, embroidered details, metal structure, 3.5 m height x 5.2 m circumference. Image Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: © Catherine Brossais****Lauren Januhowski**** at Galerie Bim Bam (2024), exhibition view of “The Thirst is a Trap” (left) and “Only You” (right). Image Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery. Photo: © Nicolas Brasseur****Lauren Januhowski**** __- Tangled Webs__ 2024 - Sewn monotypes, embroidered details, polyester organza, and glass beads, 70 cm x 70 cm. Image Courtesy of the artist - Photo by ©Nicolas Brasseur****Lauren Januhowski**** __- Phantom Embrace__ 2024 - Sewn monotypes, embroidered details, reflective polyester organza, glass beads - 46 x 57. Image Courtesy of the Artist****Lauren Januhowski (Detail)****__- Phantom Embrace__ 2024 - Sewn monotypes, embroidered details, reflective polyester organza, glass beads - 46x57. Image Courtesy of the Artist\n\n****Lauren Januhowski**** __- Phantom Embrace__ 2024 - Sewn monotypes, embroidered details, reflective polyester organza, glass beads - 46x57. Image Courtesy of the Artist\n\n* * *\n\n## **Related Readings**\n\nArtist in Focus\n\n## Bérénice Gaça Courtin: Weaving as Encrypted Memory\n\nRead More\n\nExhibition\n\n## Boglárka Dankó: Heresy in the Small Hours\n\nRead More\n\nInterview\n\n## How Do Intimacy and Rebellion Speak Through Ruth Devriendt's Work?\n\nRead More",
  "title": "The Thread Goes Both Ways - Lauren Januhowski Artist in Focus",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-27T13:42:38.149Z"
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