Aubrey Theobald

Origin: Detroit, MI, USA
Birth Year: 1996

Aubrey Theobald (she/her b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary installation artist born in Cleveland, OH and currently practicing in Detroit, MI. Theobald received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati DAAP, with minors in Art History and Critical Visions (2018).

Theobald’s work exposes the surfaces of the everyday to process, and thus heal, the factors of emotional life through the perennial mundane. Her sensorial installations are fueled by a compulsive need to understand the world around her, embodying the ability to hold both the grief-ridden and rigid, with the sentimentalized and ephemeral at once.

Grit to An Oyster, 2022
Portland cement, laser-etched plaster, muslin, water, sound
90" × 84" × 18"

Extraction, 2024
Wax, debris, chamomile, interfacing, acrylic set, expansion metal and durational video on handycam

Into Ritual, 2023
Steel, muslin, concrete, candle wax, terracotta reclaim material, Aquaphor, studio floor debris, Maldon Sea Salt, Ohio perennial plants and charcoal from friends,
nsulation foam, dried Craspedia grown by my mom, portland cement, hydrocal, plaster, projection, touch, heat
90" × 60" × 18"

Extraction (2024)
Wax, debris, chamomile, interfacing, acrylic set, expansion metal, durational video on handycam