Paul Mauren is a sculptor and educator whose career spans more than five decades. He earned a BFA in Ceramics from Eastern Michigan University in 1973 and an MFA in Sculpture and Drawing in 1975. During his graduate studies, Mauren received a teaching fellowship and worked under the direction of sculptor John Pappas, whose mentorship was an important influence on his early development as an artist. In his second year of graduate study, Mauren became Pappas’s studio assistant and worked on his monumental six-ton bronze sculpture commissioned for the Blue Cross Blue Shield fountain in Detroit. His responsibilities included helping convert an industrial building into a sculpture studio and bronze foundry, assisting with the production of the original clay sculpture and participating in all stages of the sculpture’s casting, fabrication, and installation, completed in 1977.

Following the completion of the Pappas commission, Mauren accepted a full-time faculty position at the Center for Art and Design at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, where he taught undergraduate and graduate sculpture from 1978 to 2018. In 1982, he and his wife established their primary studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, purchasing and renovating a former burlap bag factory loft that served as their studio until 2000. During the early 1980s, Mauren also served as Master Teacher of Clay Sculpture for the New York State Summer School for the Arts, sponsored by the New York State Education Department and the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is an alumni residency artist at Sculpture Space, Inc. in Utica, New York, and participated in the Salem-to-Salem artist residency program at Salem Art Works in Salem, New York.

Mauren’s recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the Lake George Arts Project Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, New York; Rebound: Five New York State Artists, curated by Dan Cameron at Sandy Hill Arts Center in Hudson Falls, New York; Force, curated by Pearl Cafritz at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont; and Something, a two-person exhibition of Mauren’s sculpture and Brodie’s painting at the Onondaga Community College Gallery in Syracuse, New York.

His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Northeast and beyond, including exhibitions at Albany Center Gallery; Art Omi in Ghent, New York; Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in Queens; Albany Institute of History & Art; Albany International Airport Gallery; Sculpture Center in New York City; Hudson Valley Community College in Troy; Queens College; Hartwick College in Oneonta; Union College in Schenectady; Opalka Gallery at The Sage Colleges in Albany; and Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. His work has also been exhibited at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts; the Southern Vermont Arts Center; Chesterwood Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts; the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio.