Art Pop Up + Shop: Four Brookhaven Residents To Support Year-Round

Lauren Loden was chosen to be our 2023 Art Pop Up + Shop Featured Artist by curator, Sharon Moskowitz. Now in her second year of the Shop, Lauren brings elements of her process to the table from raw material to scraped off remnants of previous pieces. Her corner of encaustic pieces and materials dive into the fluid movement of nature. From Lauren, “Encaustic painting allows me to put my perfectionistic fears aside and to embrace the creative process. The reactions of the encaustic materials guide my vision and design - heating the wax and mixing pigments, burning the wax into the wood in layers. Seeing what forms. Fusing myself and the moment - scraping and layering time.”

You can purchase Lauren’s art locally at Marguerite’s on Dresden and commissioned pieces online – (https://www.artistlaurenloden.com/)

Brookhaven resident Steve Shaw is an artist, teacher, and former boat captain! Steve has returned to the classroom for over 20 years and doesn’t wish to quit his day job to be a full-time artist. Steve’s art at the Pop Up displayed two styles: acrylic pour painting and abstract land and seascapes. His pieces remind us of the freedoms of vacation with expansive seas, aptly from his Key West and Beach House collections.

Keep up with Steve online (https://www.artbysteveshaw.com/) or learn from Steve at (https://acrylicpouring.com/author/steve-shaw/)

For the last 20-ish years, Len Brown has practiced self-taught, assemblage folk art. From roadside finds to estate sale pickings, Brown searches for “useful but crappy/oddball pieces” destined for the landfill and breathes new life into them to make art. Len mentions that he does “not have a vision of what the finished work could be at the start but just whether pieces seem to fit together and let it evolve as we go.” The pieces in the Art Pop Up are just a small fraction of Len’s adoptable creations.

See more of Len’s creations (https://lennelsonart.com/)

Warning: Shesquatch sighting ahead! Sally W. Eppstein’s beloved Shesquatch took various forms at this year’s Art Pop Up + Shop. From framed prints to two tales, and a life-size cutout of the female Bigfoot, Sally’s Shesquatch art is inspired from a backpacking trip on the Appalachian. Shesquatch is for readers of all ages; Meet Lily, A Shesquatch is for ages 4-8 and Lily and Her Critter Friends, Let the Adventures Begin is written early chapter book readers.

Find signed copies of these books and more of Sally’s art online at (https://sallyeppstein.com/)