Sculptural ceramic installation by Miami-based artist Lauren Shapiro, featuring intricate, modular clay forms inspired by natural ecosystems and biological structures, exhibited at MSC Cruise Terminal in Miami part of ceramic art practice.

Collected Forms

MSC Cruise Terminal
(2025-present)

Gilded ceramic sculpture placed atop a reflective plexiglass pedestal by Miami artist Lauren Shapiro, integrating botanical forms and marine textures in coral-hued relief, part of her ongoing exploration of art, ecology, and design in South Florida.

Gilded Tropic

The Shelborne by Proper (2025)

People working on intricate sand art with circular patterns, using tools such as shovels and rakes to create Art Deco inspired architectural designs on a sandy beach.

Sand Relief

Miami Beach, Florida (2025)

A pink-purple ceramic sculpture with botanical motifs placed atop a bright green acrylic pedestal in front of an architectural mural mural.

Pastiche

Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
(2024-2025)

Three Rivers

Soho Pool House (2022-present)

A digital screen projects a luminous digital image of a topographic 3D model detailed with incandescent blue which illuminates the room.

Datasets

Art and Culture Center (2023)

Site R16 Transect 1

Royal Palm South Beach (2021)

Coral Portal

MAD Arts (2023)

An image of monumental sculptural totems and arches clad in blue and off white shells, corals, and marine textures. The sculptures are contrasted against a burnt-orange wall in a gallery space.

Future Pacific

Bakehouse Arts Complex
(2020-2021)

Garden Portals

Fairchild Tropical Gardens (2021)

A Subtropical Affair

with Good to Know.FYI and the Center for Subtropical Affairs (2020)

Temporary Terrains

Fairchild Tropical Gardens (2019)

A close-up detail view of bisque clay shows textures and forms of tropical fruits, leaves, and other botanical forms.

Fragile Terrains

Bianca Boeckel Galeria with
Art Bastion Gallery (2018)

Domus Hortus

Miami Downtown Historic Post Office (2017)

Ping Pong

M54 in Basel, Switzerland (2017)

An underwater image of a women scuba diving with a red tank. The woman holds a camera above a large cluster of coral and sea fans.

Blue Horizon

Public Art Sculpture Proposal