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Installation shots: "new work: at Jack Fischer Gallery; November-December, 2010 |
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new objects |
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sewnnews |
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As news-gathering departs from paper form and is conveyed instead through the television and internet, the newspaper becomes a nostaligic and old-fashioned object. I describe the beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as a tactile and fragile object in the language of craft. The pieces in this series are entire issues of The New York Times encased in hand-embroidered cotton muslin. I select a photograph from the paper; usually a strong image suggestive of power, leadership or communication; and embroider the image onto the fabric, applying colors in a painterly way and layering line and thread. Portions of the image remain as outline and threads tangle and unravel from the fabric.
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color codification dot drawings |
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I call this body of work my "color codification dot drawings+. To make each painting, I lay a sheet of frosted mylar over a magazine page. I assign a color to every letter (numbers are shades of grayscale) and apply tiny dots of paint over every character on the page according to my color-code. Making the paintings is a lot like solving a cryptogram and the result is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout, a kind of Braille for the color-inclined.
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organza shopping bags |
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This series is a response to the current movement to eliminate plastic bags from consumer use due to their negative environmental impact. Each one-of-a-kind sculpture is based on a plastic bag I have collected in a shop or on the street. I hand-embroider the icons and text onto bridal organza and then form the material into the life-sized shape of the bag. The sculptures are delicate ghosts of the original bags, mass-produced plastic replaced with soft, tediously worked fabric.
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Ziplock StillLife |
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35mm sewnslides |
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These embroideries are life-size sculptural recreations of 35 mm slides I have collected. I am drawn to slides as precious objects: the fragility of the translucent negative material and intimacy of the scale of a palm-sized slide are particularly endearing- I hope to capture this tenderness in my sculptures. To make these little pieces, I embroider directly onto bridal organza, a very delicate translucent material, and allow the excess threads to pour out the back and hang down the wall.
Click on an image to enlarge
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soft water |
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paper pad reconfigurations |
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I have always been an admirer of the minimalist beauty of lined and graph paper. In these sculptures, I treat the printed guidelines or graph as decorative patterns on fabric- stripes or plaids. Each of the sculptures in this series is created using a different type of lined or gridded ‘office’ paper pad or package. The size of each work is determined by the amount of paper in an individual notepad or pre-packaged ream, as this determines the quantity of paper I use. I first draw a geometric shape (usually diamond or triangle) to be the base unit for the sculpture and cut multiples of this shape from the pages of the paper pad. I then sew these pieces together by hand, allowing the geometry of the accumulated base units to inform the shape of the completed sculptural object.
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handmade notebooks |
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These handmade fabric books and papers are life-size recreations based on spiral notebooks, pads of paper, journals, etc. i have collected. The front and back covers are hand-embroidered on felt and the lines on each page are machine-sewn. By making every page of the notebook, the writing pad becomes humorously thick, bursting with loose threads of machine-sewn-lines dangling off of each page.
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Installation: "notions" at Colgate University's Clifford Art Gallery; May-June 2009 |
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Installation shots from 'notions' at The Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University. For more detailed shots of individual pieces, see the section titled "new work: spring 2009"
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Installation: "Lauren DiCioccio, Aliza Lelah" at Jack Fischer Gallery; July 2008 |
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Installation shots from "Lauren DiCioccio, Aliza Lelah" at Jack Fischer Gallery, July 12, 2008-August 16, 2008
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Installation Shots: "sewnnews" at Quicksilver Mine Co., February 2008 |
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These are photographs from my solo show "sewnnews" at the Quicksilver Mine Co gallery in Forestville, CA. The show was installed in February 2008; all of the work was made in the second half of 2007.
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