Lauren Davies lives and works in San Francisco and Oakland. She is gallery manager at KALA in Oakland and is an established curator. Much of her work focuses on our strained relationship to the natural world. Combining mixed-media sculpture and installations with drawing, Davies meshes dark humor with a “do-it-yourself” approach to materials and construction. Scientific processes involving the counting of elements found in the natural world is also a preoccupation. Identifying the number of spots on a leopard or keeping a tally of how many icebergs are floating about in the Arctic oceans are of interest. Specific subject matter aside, each project combines labor-intensive studio processes with unusual materials.