> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Thread Goes Both Ways - Lauren Januhowski Artist in Focus - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/the-thread-goes-both-ways-lauren-januhowski-artist-in-focus/ - Published: 2026-03-27T13:42:37.000Z - Updated: 2026-03-31T16:21:21.000Z - 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. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Artist in Focus **Lauren Januhowski** **Based in:** Paris, France **Born:** Houston, Texas, 1992 **Medium:** Sewn Monotypes, Embroidery, Textile Installation **Education:** The Cooper Union, BFA, 2015 École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Masters, 2020 **Recent Exhibitions:** Mandorla, Abbaye de Maubuisson, 2025–2026 "There's a Snake in My Boot", Galerie Bim Bam, 2024 “What We Invoke”, 2026, Marquesa Gallery, curated by Victoria Rivers **Website:** [laurenjanuhowski.com](https://laurenjanuhowski.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy the Artist **Photography:** © Nicolas Brasseur, © Catherine Brossais, © Suzanne Bateman --- ## Lauren Januhowski - Paris, Sewn Monotypes and Embroidery Fabric 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**](https://laurenjanuhowski.com) builds through sewing and embroidery is a surface that records and transmits at once. The 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. > Each stitch is a decision made by hand. What the hand decides, the hand can pass on. *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. Zardozi embroidery 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. The 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. ![Lauren Januhowski: Supported Submersion - figurative surreal textile artwork](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/lUren-Januhowski--art.png) ****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, artwork supported subversion, Zardozi, bead, and sequin embroidery, satin and organza appliqué](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lauren--januhowski--artwork.webp) ****Lauren Januhowski:** **Supported Submersion* \- 2024 **(**Detail****) -** bead, and sequin embroidery,satin and organza appliqué 97 cm x 137 cm. **Image Courtesy of the Artist** The 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. ![Lauren Januhowski Tangled Webs - artwork](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lauren-Januhowski--artwork-for-catapult-munchies-art-club-1.webp) ****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 - textile artwork - installation view - multilayered installment](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/new-textile-artist-now.webp) ****Lauren Januhowski** *\- Collecting Cards* \- sewn monotypes, embroidered details, reflective polyester organza - 125 cm x 100 cm. Image Courtesy of the Artist ![Lauren Januhowski detail of the artwork](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/continuity-of-presence--lauren-januhowski.webp) ****Lauren Januhowski** *\- Collecting Cards* (Detail) - sewn monotypes, embroidered details, reflective polyester organza - 125 cm x 100 cm. Image Courtesy of the Artist *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. Januhowski 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\. Based 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. What the quilt holds, the stitch decides. [**Lauren Januhowski on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/laurenjanuhowski/?ref=catapult-platform.art) --- ## Notable Works and Exhibition Views: ![Lauren Januhowski - There’s a Snake in My Boot - artist in focus - figurative textile art](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lauren-Januhowski.webp) ****Lauren Januhowski** *\- There’s a snake in my boot*, (2024) embroidered details, polyester organza, and glass beads, 125 x1 15cm - Image Courtesy of the Artist ![Lauren Januhowsk Walking in Lucknow: Ancestors figurative work artist to watch](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lauren-Januhowski--artwork.webp) ****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 - exhibition view - monotypes printed on cotton and sewn, polyester organza, embroidered details, metal structure, 3.5 m height x 5.2 m circumference.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/--Catherine-Brossais---Lauren-Januhowski---Continuity-of-Presence.webp) ****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 ![gallery bim bam , exhibition - Lauren Januhowski , textile artist now](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Bim-Bam-gallery---lauren-Januhowski-exhibition.webp) ****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 new voices in textile art and bead embroidery](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lauren-Januhowski--artist.webp) ****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 Januhowsk new textile artist now - artist in focus - ready work - the thread goes both ways ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lauren--Januhowski-artist---Passage-Transfer.png) ****Lauren Januhowski** *\- Passage of Transfer* (2024), Zardosi and bead embroidery, satin and organza appliqué, 95 x 125cm - Image Courtesy of the Artist ![Lauren Januhowsk detail of the artworknew textile artist now - artist in focus - ready work - the thread goes both ways detail ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lauren-Januhowski---textile-artwork-.webp) ****Lauren Januhowski (Detail)** *\- Passage of Transfer* (2024), Zardosi and bead embroidery, satin and organza appliqué, 95 x 125cm - Image Courtesy of the Artist ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lauren-Januhowski-monotype-embroideries.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lauren-Januhowski-.webp) ****Lauren Januhowski** *\- Phantom Embrace* 2024 - Sewn monotypes, embroidered details, reflective polyester organza, glass beads - 46x57\. 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