Lauren DiCioccio reinterprets the function of textile and fiber through her artwork. A deconstruction of embroidery and sculpture, the finished pieces are at once abstract and familiar, taking after organic forms and shapes found in nature. “The main goal of the work is to use the alchemy of sculpture to take the inanimate and very simple materials of cloth and stuffing and sometimes wood and turn them into something alive with personality,” explained DiCioccio in an interview with Textile Artist. “It’s among the simplest and the most complex ideas an artist works with and I am finding it infinitely interesting.”
“My work has taken a bit of a turn in recent years since I started making these more abstract forms, rather than the more literal or representation pieces I’d made for about ten years,” adds DiCioccio. Her forms are also the result of much trial and error. A self-taught sculptor, DiCioccio’s background is actually in painting.
Having switched gears in 2005, she began embroidering and sewing with no prior experience. “I’ve never really taken a class in sculpture or studied sculpture so when I started I was just making objects,” she notes. “Now I think a lot about what it takes to make a good sculpture and how these object function in space, and that’s been a really big development.”
Below you’ll find a small collection of her work. Follow her Instagram page for more.
