Larry's Ocean City News 1950 Photograph

Baltimore native, Lauren Preller is a professional photographer and mixed media.digital artist. Lauren moved to Charleston, South Carolina in 1994 and raised her 2 daughters on Sullivan Island, South Carolina, just outside of downtown Charleston. After an establishing herself as a photographer in South Carolina, Preller photographed fine art portraiture, weddings, cotillions (yes, cotillions, they are alive and well in South Carolina). She also shot editorial photography for Charleston Magazine, Charleston City Paper, SKIRT! Magazine! Culinary Arts, Southern Living and has a published garden book, (Wyrick Publisher, 2001) “The Charleston Gardener” in hardback and “The Secret Gardens of Charleston” in paperback. Preller began using layered composites of her photographs digitally designed into contemporary art on mediums such as canvas, paper, metal, as well as mixed media art. Preller integrates many layers of photographs into a blended collage of texture and color. She creates what she calls site-specific art in collaboration with architects and interior designers. The art is created for the space; incorporating the purpose of the space and images of the textiles and colors, a process she calls site-specific art. Clients include LS3P Architects, Hacin & Associates, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Clemson University, The Noisette Company. Currently, Preller is working on her Local Map Art Project creating Art Maps. These Art Maps are designed from specific local areas of coastal Maryland and South Carolina. Preller’s photographs local topographic colors and textures. The photographs are digitally integrated into the Art Maps, which makes each map a work of beautiful and uniquely local art.