Kirstyn Hom
[Image description: Kirstyn, an Asian-American woman, stands in front of golden yellow textiles. She has dark hair and wears a red shirt, and looks at the camera serenely.]
Kirstyn Hom is a California-based artist, working with sculpture, installation, and performance to explore the intersection of language and textiles. She is influenced by stories of her grandmother’s work as a seamstress, and larger narratives of immigrants pushed into acts of service while navigating assimilation. Unraveling, seam ripping, and shedding fibers expose moments of layering and erasure. Along with deconstructing, Hom sews in a repetitive manner to draw connections to writing lines on paper. These processes help her enter a meditative state, pass time, record time, and create new languages for herself. Hom’s practice works through memory and loss, and sees textiles as a way to locate what cannot be easily translated in words yet acutely felt in the body.
Hom’s work has been included in exhibitions at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego; Open Windows Cooperative, San Francisco, CA; and the Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center, Burbank, CA, among others.
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