Jess Blaustein, "Pressed Shirt"
$1900. Thread on white collared shirt, 34 x 28 inches, 2021.
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
I make double-edged objects out of textile and paper. My work often takes the shape of densely textured coverings, books, and other tactile devices to be seen and handled from multiple sides. For me, these objects are rooted in materiality and spatial experience. They open and close, fold and unfold messages and meanings through the manipulation of surfaces and layers. I imagine my objects as alternative geographic information systems (GIS)—alternative to the digital devices we so often use to locate, to situate ourselves. Alternative GIS devices hold subplots of bodies, buildings, and landscapes. They organize, store, and share data in ways not normally conveyed by digital communication technologies, they resituate ourselves, and they variously generate joy, discomfort and connection. An ethics of material reuse informs my practice, and I ritually experiment with giving new forms to waste streams and off-cuts of existing systems.
Artist Bio
Jess Blaustein is a conceptual artist and urban researcher. With backgrounds across architecture, craft, and the humanities, she often uses found and discarded materials to tell stories of places, especially places underneath and in-between. Jess makes books, quilts, maps, and other tactile devices under the name B-PLOT and is the co-founder of STUDIOOSS Applied Arts Collective. Her teaching and research have been supported by The Mellon Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, The New School Green Fund, and the Smithsonian Institution. Exhibitions include Flux Factory, Miniartextil, San José Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Craft Forms, The Artist as Quiltmaker, Materials Hard + Soft, and the Quilt Visions Biennials. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the Hartford Art School and a PhD in Literature from Duke University. Jess works and lives in the Lower Hudson Valley with a vintage Bernina 830, three boys, and a dog named after Djuna Barnes.
$1900. Thread on white collared shirt, 34 x 28 inches, 2021.
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
I make double-edged objects out of textile and paper. My work often takes the shape of densely textured coverings, books, and other tactile devices to be seen and handled from multiple sides. For me, these objects are rooted in materiality and spatial experience. They open and close, fold and unfold messages and meanings through the manipulation of surfaces and layers. I imagine my objects as alternative geographic information systems (GIS)—alternative to the digital devices we so often use to locate, to situate ourselves. Alternative GIS devices hold subplots of bodies, buildings, and landscapes. They organize, store, and share data in ways not normally conveyed by digital communication technologies, they resituate ourselves, and they variously generate joy, discomfort and connection. An ethics of material reuse informs my practice, and I ritually experiment with giving new forms to waste streams and off-cuts of existing systems.
Artist Bio
Jess Blaustein is a conceptual artist and urban researcher. With backgrounds across architecture, craft, and the humanities, she often uses found and discarded materials to tell stories of places, especially places underneath and in-between. Jess makes books, quilts, maps, and other tactile devices under the name B-PLOT and is the co-founder of STUDIOOSS Applied Arts Collective. Her teaching and research have been supported by The Mellon Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, The New School Green Fund, and the Smithsonian Institution. Exhibitions include Flux Factory, Miniartextil, San José Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Craft Forms, The Artist as Quiltmaker, Materials Hard + Soft, and the Quilt Visions Biennials. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the Hartford Art School and a PhD in Literature from Duke University. Jess works and lives in the Lower Hudson Valley with a vintage Bernina 830, three boys, and a dog named after Djuna Barnes.
$1900. Thread on white collared shirt, 34 x 28 inches, 2021.
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
I make double-edged objects out of textile and paper. My work often takes the shape of densely textured coverings, books, and other tactile devices to be seen and handled from multiple sides. For me, these objects are rooted in materiality and spatial experience. They open and close, fold and unfold messages and meanings through the manipulation of surfaces and layers. I imagine my objects as alternative geographic information systems (GIS)—alternative to the digital devices we so often use to locate, to situate ourselves. Alternative GIS devices hold subplots of bodies, buildings, and landscapes. They organize, store, and share data in ways not normally conveyed by digital communication technologies, they resituate ourselves, and they variously generate joy, discomfort and connection. An ethics of material reuse informs my practice, and I ritually experiment with giving new forms to waste streams and off-cuts of existing systems.
Artist Bio
Jess Blaustein is a conceptual artist and urban researcher. With backgrounds across architecture, craft, and the humanities, she often uses found and discarded materials to tell stories of places, especially places underneath and in-between. Jess makes books, quilts, maps, and other tactile devices under the name B-PLOT and is the co-founder of STUDIOOSS Applied Arts Collective. Her teaching and research have been supported by The Mellon Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, The New School Green Fund, and the Smithsonian Institution. Exhibitions include Flux Factory, Miniartextil, San José Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Craft Forms, The Artist as Quiltmaker, Materials Hard + Soft, and the Quilt Visions Biennials. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the Hartford Art School and a PhD in Literature from Duke University. Jess works and lives in the Lower Hudson Valley with a vintage Bernina 830, three boys, and a dog named after Djuna Barnes.