Lauren DiCioccio’s art incorporates textile and sculpting, with the result being both striking and unique. Using hand-sewing and hand-embroidery, her sculptures have an ethereal quality to them, and one that is well-intended.
Based in San Francisco, DiCioccio took to sewing with no past experience outside of watching her mom hand-sew Halloween costumes when she was a child. “I‘ve always been attracted to the medium of textiles,” she told Textile Artist. “I think primarily because of the sense of nostalgia they hold for me.”
“I did a lot of craft projects as a kid and it seems like there was always some kind of textile-based project, from sewing Halloween costumes to doing cross-stitch samplers,” she went on to say. “The tactility of the material really makes me feel connected to those memories of my first discoveries of making things and I think this is part of what makes the material so evocative for me.”
Indeed, there’s an air of nostalgia in her work, but one that’s hard to pinpoint. Each piece – upholstered, embroidered, and embellished – has its own unique identity, demanding a closer look.
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