Lauren Lake is an assistant professor of Art at the University of Florida. Lake holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida in Art Education and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a native of Florida.

Her work most recent work, she use clusters of flowers in either piles or arrangements to respond the environment around her. It is through these inanimate objects that the external world is reconceived. The recording of
arrangements cultivated from my home garden mark domestic events (e.g. changes of seasons, a dinner guest, a new bloom), and the celebratory nature of such events.

Graphite binds each of these clusters in the attempt to preserve their transient existence. Emblematic of beauty, the flower evokes a strangeness and sadness in my work. The melancholy nature of the work both celebrates and mourns. Throughout recorded history, people have used flowers to express their feelings,
enhance their surroundings, and to commemorate important rituals and observances. These recent works of graphite contemplate the universal issues of memory, happiness, longing, and our constant struggle to control the ultimately uncontrollable.

Lake teaches Sketchbook / Idea Development, Experimental Drawing, Drawing and Painting Graduate Seminar, Advanced Drawing as well as International Courses in Greece and France though the University of Florida International Center.

Her Lake was the recipient of the 2007 Southeastern College Art Conference Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2008 University of Florida College of Fine Arts International Educator Award and the 2009 College of Fine Arts Teaching Award.