Lauren Browning - Behind Closed Doors

The "Behind Closed Doors" exhibit takes a peek into a private world of hidden emotion, where the mask comes off and the truth quietly surfaces.

Out in the world, it is polite to be “ok”, and only that really... But behind closed doors, in our safe spaces tucked away… here is where we can truly be ourselves. Here we don’t have to pretend to be perfectly fine all the time. Here we can accept that we are just human, experiencing everything all at once. The good, the bad, the scared, the broken, and all those spaces in between.

Each painting in this series captures a facet of that hidden life that we are oh so scared to reveal. The flood of emotions, the escape into solitude, the longing for happiness in all the wrong places, and the slow surrender to the burden of carrying too much for too long.

Here in the shadows, vulnerability is not weakness, but the purest form of self. Here, it is simply being human.